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 3 of a 6-part series on the work of Édouard Vuillard:
1899 Landscapes and Interiors: A portfolio of twelve lithographs and lithographed cover
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| Cover: Interiors 59.5 x 44.2 cm |
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| Interior with Ceiling Lamp 38.5 x 30.3 cm |
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| Interior with Pink Wallpaper 39.2 x 30.7 cm |
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| Interior with Pink Wallpaper 39.2 x 31.1 cm |
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| Interior with Pink Wallpaper 37.4 x 30 cm |
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| On the Bridge of Europe 33.3 x 39.4 cm |
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| The Avenue lithograph 32 x 44 cm |
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| The Cook 36.7 x 29.2 cm |
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| The Game of Checkers lithograph 37.7 x 30.7 cm |
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| The Hearth 40.3 x 32.7 cm |
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| The Pastry Shop 40.3 x 31.8 cm |
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| The Two Sisters-in-Law 38.4 x 31.5 cm |
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| Through the Fields 31.3 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1899 The Game of Checkers colour lithograph on greyish-ivory laid paper 37.4 x 28.2 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1899 Misia and Vallotton in Villeneuve oil on board laid down on cradled panel 70.2 x 51.1 cm |
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| c1899 Woman in blue with a child oil on compressed card 48.6 x 56.5 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK |
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| c1899 The painter Maximilien Luce in his studio oil on board 25.1 x 37.8 cm |
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| c1899 The Avenue colour lithograph with pastel and gouache on greyish-ivory China paper 32.5 x42 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1899 Thadée Natanson at his desk oil on cardboard mounted on cradled panel 47 x 56.5 cm Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York |
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| c1899-1900 reworked 1908 glue-based paint on canvas 240 x 154.3 cm |
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| 1899-1900 The Daisies oil on board laid down on cradled pane 33 x 44.4 cm |
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| 1900 Madame Vuillard arranging her hair oil on millboard 49.5 x 35.5 cm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK |
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| 1900 Landscape - House on the left oil on board 67.5 x 58.5 cm Tate Gallery, London |
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| c1900-01 Pot of flowers oil on millboard 48.5 x 62 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| 1900-01 Child with cup oil on board laid down on cradled panel 48.6 x 62.3 cm |
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| 1900-01 Anemones in a Chinese vase oil on canvas 30.5 x 25.1 cm |
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| 1900-02 Nude in the apartment on Rue Truffaut oil on canvas 65.5 x 81.5 cm |
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| c1900 The blue inkwell on the mantelpiece oil on brown paper laid on pane 33.6 x 40.6 cm Norfolk Museums Service |
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| c1900 Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre Vuillard glue and sand paint on beige paper 55 x 59.2 cm |
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| c1900 Garden seen from above oil on tan cardboard 30.7 x 51.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1900 Child playing: Annette Roussel in front of a wooden chair oil on cardboard 43.8 x 57/8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1900-08 Madame Hessel on a sofa oil on board 54.6 x 54.6 cm Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
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| c1900 Woman in an interior, the artist's mother, rue Truffaut oil on canvas 32 x 31.5 cm |
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| c1900 Winter oil on canvas 34.7 x 25.7 cm |
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| c1900 The Garden oil on board laid down on cradled panel 48 x 31 cm |
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| c1900 The candlestick oil on millboard 43.6 x 75.8 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| c1901 Portrait of Madame Delierre, known as Symphony in Red oil on board laid down on cradled panel 58.5 x 64.8 cm |
1901, reworked 1935 The Terrace at Vasouy,
This painting was the right half of a decorative panel commissioned by Jean Schopfer, a writer who published under the pen name Claude Anet. In 1935, over 30 years after its completion, Vuillard cut the panel into two and reworked it; the other half, La Terrasse at Vasouy, the Garden, is also in the National Gallery’s collection. Many members of this elegant group were part of the literary and artistic scene in Paris. From left to right are the artist Pierre Bonnard, Madame Alice Schopfer and Monsieur Jean Schopfer, the novelist Romain Coolus, Misia Natanson, Lucy Hessel, Madame ‘Bob’ Schopfer and Monsieur Louis Schopfer and the writer Tristan Bernard. Lucy Hessel, who was married to Vuillard’s patron Jos Hessel, was the host of this gathering in 1901.
The National Gallery, London
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| 1901 (reworked 1935) The terrace at Vasouy, the lunch distemper on canvas 218.4 x 190 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1901 The Garden in front of the studio colour lithograph on greyish-ivory China paper 63 x 47.2 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1901 Lucy Hessel visiting Cricquebœuf oil on board 30.3 x 52.7 cm |
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| 1901 Interior: The drawing room oil on compressed card 35.5 x 52.7 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK |
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| 1901 Four people on a balcony oil on board laid down on panel 39.7 x 43.8 cm |
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| 1902 Interior with rocking chairs oil on board mounted on cradled panel 66.2 x 54 cm |
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| 1902 A woman by an open door, with two small children seated below a sink drawing - medium? Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
