Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004287The Artist's Mother Playing Checkers
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "E Vuillard"; stamped lower right, in black ink: "EV"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 909b]. Sold by Huguette Berès, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1956.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 149, as "The Game of Checkers." Chicago, Arts Club, "E. Vuillard: Drawings from the Ayrton Collection," January 14-February 16, 1980.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edouard Jean Vuillard / French, 1868-1940
- Date
- c. 1890–91
- Medium
- Pastel, with graphite, stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Max: 37.5 × 30.5 cm (14 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Accession no.
- 1956.35
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