Édouard Vuillard:
The Striped Blouse, 1895
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983
Photo courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Édouard Vuillard
FRANCE
PARIS • Galeries nationales du Grand Palais • Ongoing
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The most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the work of Édouard Vuillard, the quintessential Parisian artist whose work spans the fin-de-siècle through the 1930s. Often described as an "intimist," Édouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) is best known for his post-impressionist paintings of friends and families in interior settings, rich with patterned wallpapers, draperies, carpets, and clothing.
Approximately 230 works on view demonstrate the full range of Vuillard’s prolific career and his embrace of unconventional media. In addition to his luminous paintings, the exhibition includes innovative folding screens, theatre programs, prints, drawings, photographs, and ceramics. A highlight of the exhibition is the reunion of The Public Gardens (1894), a series of decorative panels not seen together publicly since 1906 and dispersed at auction in 1929. The last Vuillard exhibition on this scale was a 1938 retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Réunion des musées nationaux/Musée d’Orsay, Paris. The show will travel to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where it will be seen 31 January - 18 April 2004.
Édouard Vuillard, the exhibition catalogue, is copublished by The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Authored by Guy Cogeval with Kimberly Jones, Laurence des Cars and MaryAnne Stevens, and with contributions by Dario Gamboni, Elizabeth Easton and Mathias Chivot, the catalogue contains five essays on aspects of the artist’s work, from his fascination with photography to the impact of country sojourns on his painting (520 pages, 463 color, 95 b/w).
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