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The main painting of the commission, Le Grand Teddy, is currently privately owned and kept in secure storage in Geneva, Switzerland, and, at the time the programme was made, it was the only one of the three known to still exist, and to have been fully confirmed as a genuine Vuillard. It was thought to be one of the three paintings commissioned from Vuillard in 1918 to decorate "Le Grand Teddy". Tutt's vertical oval painting, titled The Café, depicts an oblique elevated view of a café interior, with a group of women seated on a banquette. He contacted the BBC programme Fake or Fortune?, in an attempt to gain their help in authenticating his work. Keith Tutt, an author and scriptwriter from Norfolk, fell in love with the work of French post-Impressionist painter Édouard Vuillard during his art classes at Tonbridge School and purchased a painting, thought to be one of the two smaller Grand Teddy works, at auction for approximately £11,000. Depicting a couple seated to champagne and oysters, its whereabouts remain unknown, as the dealer Warren has been unable to identify its purchaser. Its mate The Oysters carries the same estimated value. Estimated to be worth £250,000, The Café remains with 2007 purchaser Keith Tutt and will be included in subsequent print editions of the catalogue raisonné. ĭepicting a number of ladies seated at a banquette, The Café was re-examined for the BBC programme Fake or Fortune? by the Wildenstein Institute and authenticated by unanimous decision of its Vuillard Committee. In 2007, The Café was sold on for £11,000 by "a Suffolk family" at TW Gaze in Diss, Norfolk. In 2005 he sold The Oysters on eBay for £3,000. Standing four feet high in portrait orientation, neither appeared in the Vuillard catalogue raisonné when the paintings were acquired as a pair by art dealer Robert Warren. Nearly five feet high and over eleven-and-a-half feet wide, Le Grand Teddy was accompanied by two smaller ovals, identified in the painter's notes as The Cafe and The Oysters. It is privately owned and only occasionally seen in public. It is 150 x 290 cm in an oval shape in landscape format.

It was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York City in May, 2012. The largest (called Le Grand Teddy) shows the fashionable patrons of the cafe.