Strauss & co - 4 June 2018, Johannesburg

207 252 Edouard Vuillard FRENCH 1868–1940 La lecture sous les arbres à Amfreville signed; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and the medium on a Dennis Hotz Fine Art gallery label adhered to the reverse pastel and pencil on paper 26,5 by 38 cm R500 000 – 700 000 PROVENANCE Mrs Nicolas, Paris, c. 1953 Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1 March 1982, lot 180 JPL Fine Arts, London Private collection, Mexico Sold: Christie’s, London, 16 November 1983, lot 131 Private Collection EXHIBITED Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Vuillard , 1953, no. 61. LITERATURE Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Edouard Vuillard, Mathias Chivot (2003). Vuillard: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels . Paris: Skira and Wildenstein Institute. Illustrated in colour on page 907.