Tag: Vuillard

Intérieur rouge (1902)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur rouge (Red Interior) 1902 Oil on tan paper mounted to cradled panel, 37.1 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Vuillard never married, and he lived with his mother, a seamstress, for her entire life. He often depicted…

Dans une salle (1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Dans une salle (In a Room) 1899 Oil on cardboard pasted on panel, 52 x 79 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This artist’s fondness for the depiction of domestic scenes was probably bound up with recollections of the…

La Chanteuse (1891-1892)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Chanteuse (The Singer) 1891–1892 Pastel on paper, 27.7 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Édouard Vuillard, together with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier, was one of the founders of the Nabis, a group, which emerged from the…

Sous les arbres (1897-1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Sous les arbres (Beneath the Trees) 1897–1899 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 53 x 67 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection In March 1899 Maurice Denis explained in his diary the difference between the…

Au café (c.1897-1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Au café (At the Café) c.1897–1899 Oil on board, laid on cradled panel, 28.8 x 27.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Vuillard once said, “I don’t do portraits. I paint people in their surroundings.” This scene of…

Intérieur ensoleillé (c.1920)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur ensoleillé (Sunlit Interior) c.1920 Distemper on paper on canvas, 83.2 x 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London This picture appears in the Bernheim-Jeune records under the title used here. Jacques Salomon wrote (20 October 1969) that it represents…

Femme dans un intérieur (1935)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in an Interior, Madame Hessel at Les Clayes) 1935 Oil on paper, 40.9 x 55.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This intimate work was painted, according to Vuillard’s journal, on Easter morning…

La Cheminée, reverse (1905)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée, reverse (The Mantelpiece, reverse) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London Obverse: Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée 1905 National Gallery, London    

La Cheminée (1905)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée (The Mantelpiece) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London 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…