Edouard VUILLARD Interior of an inn. Model set for "La Lépreuse" - 1919 Tempera on paper mounted on cardboard pasted on parquet board Signed with the monogram and annotated lower right "maquette 2e acte de la Lépreuse E.V.". 59 x 100 cm Provenance: M. Lenormand, Paris Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, (inventory no. 23735, titled Intérieur d'auberge), acquired 1924 Collection Raphaël Gérard, Paris (acquired as part of a group of lots on 5 July 1924) Dr. Georges Viau Collection, Paris Sale Paris, Sale of the Viau estate, 24 February 1943, lot 140 Georges Maratier Collection, Paris Sale Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 15 December 1958, lot 183 Galerie Berri-Lardy, Paris Sale Versailles, Me Blache, 2 June 1982, lot 86 Sale Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 9 June 1994, lot 41 Private collection Sale New York, Sotheby's, 8 May 2013, lot 493 To the present owner by successive transfers Bibliography: A. Salomon, G.Cogeval, Vuillard. Le regard innombrable. Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, tome III, Wildenstein Institute / Skira, Paris, 2003, n°X-228, reproduced p.1288 A certificate from Antoine Salomon will be given to the buyer. (to be confirmed) Tempera on paper laid down on cardboard laid down on cradled hardboard ; signed with the monogram and annotated lower right; 23 1/4 x 39 3/8 in. Lot en importation temporaire / Lot in temporary import Lot in temporary import. The hammer price is exclusive of VAT. VAT at the reduced rate of 5.5% applies to the hammer price and the sales commission. This VAT is recoverable for French professionals. It is refundable for a buyer from outside the EU on presentation of proof of export from the EU or for a professional buyer with an intra-Community VAT number and a document proving delivery in the Member State. This work is in temporary import. The hammer price will be VAT excluded. 5.5% VAT will be added to the hammer price and buyer's premium. Upon request, this VAT can be refunded to the purchaser on presentation of written proof of exportation outside the EU or to the EU purchaser who will submit his intracommunity VAT number and a proof of shipment of his purchase to his EU country home address. Edouard VUILLARD 59 x 100 cm