Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Autoportrait à la canne et au canotier

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Autoportrait à la canne et au canotier
stamped with signature 'E Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower right)
oil on board laid down on canvas
14 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (36 x 28.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1891-1892

Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Sam Salz, Inc., New York (acquired from the above).
Ralph F. Colin, New York (acquired from the above, 1953 and until 1985).
E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 8 July 1992.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson

Literature
J. Davies, ed., Vogue, vol. 131, no. 1, 1 January 1958, p. 99 (illustrated in color).
S. Preston, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 102, no. 686, May 1960, pp. 227 and 129 (illustrated, p. 227, fig. 50; titled Self-Portrait and dated 1892).
A. Georges, Symbolisme et décor: Vuillard, 1888-1905, Ph.D. Diss, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne, 1982, p. 43.
E. Daniel, Vuillard: l’espace de l’intimité, Ph.D. Diss, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Paris, 1984, p. 385 (illustrated, fig. 139; titled L'autoportrait au canotier and dated 1892).
P. Ciaffa, The Portraits of Edouard Vuillard, Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, New York, 1985, pp. 111-113 and 383 (illustrated, fig. 25; titled Self-Portrait with Straw Hat and dated 1892).
S. Preston, Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1985, p. 20 (illustrated, fig. 25; titled Self-Portrait with Straw Hat and dated circa 1892).
M. Makarius, Vuillard, Paris, 1989 (detail illustrated on the back cover; titled Self-Portrait and dated circa 1892).
G.L. Groom, Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven, 1993, p. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 9, pl. 8; titled Bonjour M. Vuillard (Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat)).
A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard: Le regard innombrable, catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. I, p. 93, no. II-27 (illustrated in color, p. 93; detail illustrated in color, p. 71).
B. Thomson, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art: The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2013, pp. 145 and 167 (illustrated in color, p. 145, fig. 128).

Exhibited
The Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edouard Vuillard, January-June 1954, p. 101 (illustrated, p. 40; titled Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat and dated circa 1892).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, Pamela T. Colin and Ralph F. Colin, Jr., April-May 1960, no. 11 (illustrated; titled Self-portrait, Le Canotier).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Edouard Vuillard, January-March 1972, p. 228, no. 7 (illustrated; titled Vuillard coiffé d'un canotier and dated circa 1892).
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, April-September 1975, pp. 232 and 268, no. 111 (illustrated, p. 233; titled Self-Portrait and dated 1892).
Salzburg, Galerie Salis, and London, JPL Fine Arts, E Vuillard, March-June 1991 (detail illustrated; titled Autoportrait and dated 1892).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Edouard Vuillard, January 2003-April 2004, pp. 79 and 83, no. 28 (illustrated in color, p. 83).
New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Eye to I: 3,000 Years of Portraits, October 2013-February 2014, p. 88 (illustrated in color, p. 25; dated circa 1891).