Deux Ouvrières dans l'Atelier de Couture (Two Seamstresses in the Workroom)
Artist: Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940)
Location: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Date: 1893
Materials: oil on card
Dimensions: 14 x 20 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £172,000)
Vendor: William Hardie Ltd
Review number: 3623 (1991)
Provenance:
Charles Mackie, 1893; Stanley Cursiter, 1920; Margaret Cursiter Hunter, 1976. William Hardie Ltd.
Description:
This work shows two young women who worked in the artist's mother's business. They have temporarily stopped sewing to look at something, perhaps the pattern they are following. The features of both women are indistinct; Vuillard emphasises rather their utter absorption in their task.
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