Madame Vallad cousant

1893
Oil on canvas
45,66 x 31,89 in
Signed lower right: « L Pourtau »

Provenance
Gabriel Vallad collection.
Galerie Bailly, Paris.
Sale: Sotheby’s London, « Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part II », June 29, 1988, lot 123.
Rau collection
Sale: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, November 26, 2013, lot 303 (Bought in).
Rau Foundation for the Third World, Zurich.

Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy of Arts, « From Manet to Gauguin. Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections », June 30 – October 8, 1995, exhibition catalogue, no 147, illustrated.
« Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections », travelling exhibition, Tokyo, The Sezon Museum of Art, October 21, 1995 – January 21, 1996 ;

Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Museum of Art, February
3 – March 12 1996, exhibition catalogue, no 47, illustrated p.131.
« Pointillisme : Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat / Pointillisme – sur les traces de Seurat », travelling exhibition, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz- Museum, September 6 – November 30, 1997 ; Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, January
23 – May 31, 1998,exhibition catalogue, no 114, illustrated p.254.
« Georges Seurat et le néo-impressionnisme, 1885-1905 », travelling exhibition, Kochi, Museum of Art – Utsunomiya Museum of Art, June 2 – July 14, 2002 ; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, September 10 – October 20, 2002 ; Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Dasai, Museum of Art, October 26 – December 8, 2002, exhibition catalogue, no 99, illustrated p.208.

Literature
Gilles Caillaud, Hélène Bailly-Marcilhac & Charles Bailly, Léon Pourtau: vie et oeuvre d’un pionnier du pointillisme: essai de catalogue raisonné, Skira Editions, Milan, 2014, no 13, illustrated p.81.