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Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted thea…
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culture · French painter (1868–1940) · painter · draftsperson · photographer · lithographer · printmaker · graphic artist · illustrator · visual artist · also Édouard Vuillard, Jean Edouard Vuillard, e. vuillard, jean edouard vuillard, Vuillard, Edouard Vuilliard
Born 11 November 1868 · Died 21 June 1940 · Q239394
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Rachida Dati intervient pour conserver un chef-d’œuvre d’Édouard Vuillard en France
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2023· 1 entry
Le Temps: Quand Edouard Vuillard dialoguait avec le Japon
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2016· 1 entry
Le Figaro: Édouard Vuillard entre Saône et Loire
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2014· 2 entries
Le Temps: Edouard Vuillard, de la lumière au bout du pinceau
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The BBC television program Fake or Fortune
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2012· 2 entries
Observer: Interiors: ‘Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940’ at the Jewish Museum and ‘Merlin Carpenter: Tate Café’ at Reena Spaulings Fine Art
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The New Yorker: Édouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
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2006· 1 entry
The National Gallery of Canada restituted Vuillard's The Salon of Madame Aron (1904, reworked in 1934), which it had purchased in 1956, to the Lindon family in France
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2003· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Edouard Vuillard: Mr. French
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NPR: Edouard Vuillard: Behind Closed Doors
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1940· 2 entries
Died 1940-06-21.
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Vuillard completed his last two portraits
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1938· 1 entry
Vuillard was elected to the Académie des Beaux Arts in February, and in July, the Musée des Arts Decoratifs presented a major retrospective of his paintings
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1937· 2 entries
And Bonnard combined their impressions of the history of Paris theater world in a large mural, La Comédie, for the foyer of the new Théâtre national de Chaillot, built for the 1937 Paris International Exposition
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Vuillard received another major commission, along with Maurice Denis and Roussel, for a monumental mural at the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva
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1921· 1 entry
Vuillard received an important commission for decorative panels for the art patron Camille Bauer, for his residence in Basel, Switzerland
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1918· 1 entry
To decorate a new Parisian café, "Le Grand Teddy", named after American president Teddy Roosevelt
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1912· 2 entries
Vuillard, Bonnard and Roussel were nominated for the Légion d'honneur, but all three refused the honor
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Vuillard painted Théodore Duret in his Study, a commissioned portrait that signaled a new phase in Vuillard's work, which was dominated by portraiture from 1920 onwards
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1900· 2 entries
Vuillard met Lucy Hessel, wife of a Swiss art dealer, who became his new muse, traveling with him each year to Normandy in July, August and September, and giving him advice
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Vuillard's artistic style and subjects changed
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1899· 1 entry
Became the most valuable Vuillard sold at auction when it achieved $17
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1897· 1 entry
Vuillard interiors showed a noticeable change, with Large Interior with Six Persons
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1896· 1 entry
Were originally titled simply People in Interiors but later critics added subtitles: Music, Work, The Choice of Books, and Intimacy
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1895· 3 entries
Designed a series of decorative porcelain plates, decorated with faces and figures of women in modern dress, immersed in floral designs
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At the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, but the actual windows were never made
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Vuillard received a commission from the cardiologist Henri Vaquez for four panels to decorate the library of his Paris house at 27 rue du Général Foy
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1894· 3 entries
"When my attention is directed toward men, I see only gross caricatures
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Vuillard and the other Nabis received a commission from art gallery owner Siegfried Bing, who had given Art Nouveau its name, to design stained glass windows to be made by the American firm of Louis Tiffany
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For Alexandre Natanson, and in 1898 for Claude Anet
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1892· 2 entries
Vuillard received his first decorative commission to make six paintings to be placed above the doorways of the salon of the family of Paul Desmarais
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On a commission for Natanson brothers, Vuillard painted his first decorations ("apartment frescoes") for the house of Mme Desmarais
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1891· 1 entry
Took part in his first exposition with the Nabis at the Chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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1890· 4 entries
“In the decoration of an apartment, and overly-precise subject can easily become intolerable. One might less quickly get tired of a textile, or drawings without too much literal precision.”
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"In the decoration of an apartment, and overly-precise subject can easily become intolerable
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Returned to the same idea: "Let's look at a painting as a set of relations that are definitely detached from any idea of naturalism
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Through Denis, Vuillard became a member of the group, which met in Ransom's studio or in the cafes of the Passage Brady
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1889· 1 entry
Vuillard began to frequent meetings of the informal group of artists known as Les Nabis, or The prophets, a semi-secret, semi-mystical club that included Maurice Denis and some of his other friends from the Lycée
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1888· 3 entries
The young painter Paul Sérusier had traveled to Brittany, where, under the direction of Paul Gauguin, he had made a nearly abstract painting of the seaport, composed of areas of color
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And 1889, he pursued his studies in academic art
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With the academic history painter Jean-Léon Gérôme
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1885· 1 entry
Vuillard took courses at the Académie Julian, and frequented the studios of the academic painters William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury
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1877· 1 entry
The family settled in Paris at 18 Rue de Chabrol, then moved to a building on Rue Daunou where his mother had a sewing workshop
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-11-11.
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