Édouard Vuillard born at Cuiseaux, Sâone-et-Loire, the son of a retired army officer. The family moved to Paris in 1877 and Vuillard became a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1886, later moving to the Académie Julian. There he met Bonnard and other painters with whom he founded the Nabis in 1889 (the name derived from the Hebrew for prophet). The group, influenced by Gauguin and Degas, concentrated on pattern and distortion to emphasise psychological meanings beyond appearances in ordinary domestic subjects, though Bonnard and Vuillard executed from 1892 to 1937 large decorative schemes, including stage scenery. He was elected to the Institute in 1938. The National Gallery, London
This is part 1 of a 6-part series on the work of Édouard Vuillard:
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| 1887 Still Life with Cabbage oil on canvas 45.9 x 65 cm |
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| 1887-88 Bouquet of violets and daffodils in a pitcher oil on canvas 22.5 x 19 cm |
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| 1887-88 Cup and tangerine oil on canvas 19 x 25.1 cm |
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| 1887-89 Madame Vuillard in profile oil on canvas 28 x 32.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1888 Vuillard with a white collar oil on canvas 39.5 x 31 cm |
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| 1888 Vuillard’s Mother charcoal and traces of white chalk, with stumping on cream laid paper 56.1 x 48.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1888-89 Still life with jug and knife oil on canvas 30.5 x 39.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1889-90 Still life with bottle and carafe oil on canvas 40.6 x 32.7 cm |
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| c1889-90 Still life with flowers and bottle pastel and charcoal on paper 32.7 x 43 cm |
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| c1889 Dinnertime oil on canvas 71.8 x 92.2 cm |
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| c1889 The declamation pen and ink 34 x 39 cm V&A Museum, London |
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| 1890 Monsieur Bute by Maurice Biolley lithograph 19.6 x 16.6 cm (composition) MoMA, New York |
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| 1890 Study for The Seamstresses pastel and charcoal on paper 45.5 x 53.7 cm |
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| 1890 The Seamstresses oil on canvas 47.5 x 57.5 cm |
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| 1890-91 The lamb sleeve oil on board 21.3 x 19.4 cm |
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| c1890-91 Antoinette David-Weill in Mareil-le-Guyon oil on board 21.3 x 19.4 cm |
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| c1890-91 The Snack oil on board 23.5 x 26 cm |
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| c1890 Alexandre Vuillard watercolour, with brush and brown ink, over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper 17.4 x 16.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1890 Lilacs (The schematic bouquet) oil on board laid down on cradled panel 34.9 x 28 cm |
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| c1890 Self-Portrait in a Mirror with Bamboo oil on canvas 44.5 x 53.3 cm |
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| c1890 Self-Portrait oil on board laid down on panel 35 x 27 cm |
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| 1890s Madame Vuillard seated at a table oil on canvas 45 x 20 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
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| 1891 Seated Nude oil on board 29.5 x 22.2 cm |
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| 1891 The flowered dress oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand |
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| 1891 The Song of Songs oil on canvas 74 x 50 cm |
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| 1891-92 The Singer pastel on paper 27.7 x 20 cm Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| 1891-92 Two Women brush and black ink and charcoal on ivory wove paper 30.7 x 35.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1891-92 Biana Duhamel in the role of "Miss Helyett" pastel on paper 41.3 x 25.7 cm |
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| c1891-92 Self-portrait with cane and boater hat oil on board laid down on canvas 36 x 28.3 cm |
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| c1891-92 The large serviette oil on card 23 x 27.9 cm |
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| c1891-92 The little hand oil on board 21.2 x 19.5 cm |
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| c1891-92 The sweeper on the track oil on canvas 40.9 x 32.5 cm |
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| c1891 Little girls taking a walk oil on canvas 80 x 64 cm |
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| c1891 Marie bent over her work oil on board 18.9 x 24 cm |
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| c1891 The Actor pastel on grey paper 30.5 x 22 cm |
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| c1891 The Artist’s Sister, Rue Saint-Honoré brush and brown and grey ink, watercolour, and gouache, on ivory wove paper 32 x 20 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1892-95 Evening in the Garden of the Alcazar gouache and distemper on cream wove paper, laid down on wood-pulp card 48.4 x 43.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1893 At table oil on cardboard 30.5 x 26.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
1893 Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist
In this painting, Vuillard's mother and sister are depicted at home. A widow who had supported her family by running her own business, his mother commands a powerful presence. Her pose is solid and stable, her dress is the painting's largest unbroken form, and her face and hands stand out against browns and blacks, and against the extraordinary trapezoid of mottled color that describes the room's wallpaper. Her daughter, by contrast, almost disintegrates into this surface, as if its dots had temporarily organized themselves into the checkered pattern of her dress. Pressing herself awkwardly against the wall, she bends her head and shoulders, apparently greeting a visitor but also, it seems, forced to bow if she is to fit in the picture's frame.
MoMA
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| 1893 Interior, mother and sister of the artist oil on canvas 46.3 x 56.5 cm |
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| 1893 Interior, three women are talking oil on board 37.1 x 58.6 cm |
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| 1893 Marie opening the window oil on board 27.3 x 28.5 cm |
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| 1893 Old woman at a stove lithograph with scraping on stone, on tan or brown wove paper 25.6 x 19.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1893 Programme for "An Enemy of the People" published by Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, Paris |
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| 1893 Programme for "Lonely Soles" (Âmes solitaires) |
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| 1893 Siesta or Convalescence colour lithograph on wove paper29 x 22 cm |
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| 1893 Still life with top hat oil on cardboard, mounted on panel 26 x 18.4 cm |
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| 1893 The artist's sister with a cup of coffee distemper on card 35.5 x 29.1 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
