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| Self Portrait in a Mirror oil on board laid down on cradled panel 27.3 x 21.4 cm |
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 4 of a 6-part series on the work of Édouard Vuillard:
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| 1902 The Table oil on compressed card 25.4 x 34.3 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK |
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| 1902 Red Interior oil on tan paper mounted to cradled panel 37.1 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| c1902-03 The open door oil on cardboard 53.5 x 40 cm |
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| c1902-03 reworked 1915 The Open Window oil on millboard 56.9 x 45 cm National Galleries of Scotland: Modern |
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| 1902-03 Woman in white seated oil on board 24.8 x 35.2 cm |
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| c1902-04 Woman sitting in a bright interior oil on board laid down on cradled panel 38.2 x 47.1 cm |
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| c1903 Reclining Nude oil on canvas 76.2 x 60.2 cm |
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| c1903 Model removing her stockings oil on board 54.8 x 48 cm |
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| c1903 Breakfast oil on board 32.3 x 43.5 cm |
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| c1903-04 Two roses and the box of pastels oil on canvas 33.4 x 41.4 cm |
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| c1904 Madame Arthur Fontaine in pink oil on board laid down on cradled panel 62.8 x 57.2 cm |
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| c1904 Jos Hessel and his wife, Rue de Rivoli oil on board 62.4 x 61.7 cm |
c1904-05 Madame Arthur Fontaine
Marie Escudier Fontaine appears to be enjoying a quiet moment at home in this portrait, one of many that Edouard Vuillard painted of her. Vuillard emphasized the intimacy of the scene through his compression of space, achieved by the unusual viewpoint from above and behind, and through his use of flat patches of color and pattern. The artist first developed a friendship with Marie and her husband Arthur Fontaine, and maintained his close relationship with Marie following her divorce from Fontaine in 1905. A pianist herself, she socialized within a circle of prominent artists, musicians, writers, and patrons, including Post-Impressionists like Vuillard.
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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| c1904-05 Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier Fontaine) in a pink shawl gouache and oil on cardboard mounted on cardboard 50.2 x 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1904 Mme Arthur Fontaine at the piano oil on board mounted on cradled panel 54.6 x 62.2 cm |
1905 The Mantelpiece
This picture – a combination of interior scene and still-life painting – shows Vuillard’s room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and Lucy Hessel rented the house for the summers of 1905, 1906 and 1907. A posy of wild flowers on the marble mantelpiece sits alongside a number of bottles, artworks tucked behind them. Another picture hangs on the wall, far above the painting rags that are hanging up to dry. The richly decorated walls compete with the still-life arrangement on the mantelpiece. Despite this interplay between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the foreshortened mantelpiece, which appears to jut out of the picture, marks the artist’s move to a more naturalistic approach.
The National Gallery, London
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| 1905 The Mantelpiece oil on cardboard 51.4 x 77.5 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1905 Portrait of Йоса Хесселя oil on cardboard 86.5 x 66.5 cm |
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| 1905 Lady in green oil on millboard 30.2 x 22.5 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK |
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| 1905 Guelder Roses and the Venus of Milo oil on cardboard 76 x 62.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1905 Confidence, the Bernheim children at the living room oil on board laid down on cradled panel 57 x 77.5 cm |
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| c1905 Madame Hessel in a red dress reading oil on cardboard 39.5 x 36.6 cm |
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| c1905 Le Salon des Hessels, Rue de Rivoli oil on board laid down on cradled panel 35.2 x 58.1 cm |
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| 1905-07 Madame Hessel at sunset oil on canvas 60.2 x 73.1 cm |
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| 1905-07 Anemones on a small table oil on canvas 59.4 x 772.4 cm |
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| 1906 The dressing room, Madame Hessel reading at Amfreville oil and tempera on cardboard 49.5 x 63.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1907 Portrait of Lucy Hessel in a Musketeer hat oil on cardboard 86.1 x 64.9 cm |
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| c1907-08 The visitor peinture à la colle on canvas 72.2 x 60.2 cm |
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| 1907 White Roses oil on board 29 x 28.2 cm |
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| 1908 “La Tour Eiffel” peinture à la colle over charcoal on joined paper laid down on panel 200 x 47.4 cm |
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| 1908 “The child at the stream” peinture à la colle over charcoal on joined paper laid down on panel 200 x 47.4 cm |
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| 1908 “The Road” peinture à la colle over charcoal on paper laid down on panel 198.2 x 68 cm |
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| 1908 “The watering truck” peinture à la colle over charcoal on paper laid down on panel 198.4 x 68.4 cm |
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| c1908-09 The Metro Wagon glue-based distemper on paper laid down on canvas 57.9 x 54.6 cm |
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| c1908 The laden table pastel on paper on board 47 x 54.6 cm Tate Gallery, London |
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| 1909-10 Place Vintimille peinture à la colle over charcoal on paper laid down on panel |
1909-10 Title?
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| 1909-10 Title? peinture à la colle over charcoal on paper laid down on panel |
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| 1909-10 Place Vintimille 200.1 x 70 cm |
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| 1909-11 The meal oil on canvas 53 x 51 cm Birmingham Museums Trust, UK |
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| 1909 reworked in 1924 Windmill in Saint-Jacut or Les Villas peinture à la colle on paper laid down on canvas 85 x 106.4 cm |
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| 1910 The study room at the Pavilions peinture à la colle on buff paper 58.4 x 44.5 cm |
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| 1910 Interior with Madame Hessel and her dog oil on cardboard on panel 73.9 x 86.4 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, UK |