ÉDOUARD VUILLARD, (1868-1940)

Arbres dans la prairie

Arbres dans la prairie
stamped with the artist's signature 'E Vuillard' (lower right) and indistinctly inscribed (lower left)
oil on paper laid on canvas
40 x 53.3cm (15 3/4 x 21in).
Painted between 1905 - 1907

Provenance
The artist's studio.
The Leicester Galleries, London.
Captain Richard A. Peto Collection, Isle of Wight.
Rosemary Peto Collection, London (by descent from the above).
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, no. XLOS 4624.
Gerald Leigh Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1971).
Thence by descent to the present owners.

Exhibited
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, French Impressionists and English Paintings and Sculpture from the Peto Collection, 1960, no. 89.

Literature
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Vol. II, Milan, 2003, no. VIII-189 (illustrated p. 915).