GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Edouard Vuillard was born in 1868 at Cuiseaux, Saone-et-Loire. He was dissuaded from attending a military school by his friend Ker-Xavier Roussel. At Roussel's instigation, he began art studies at the École des Beaux Arts in 1886 when Jean-Léon Gérôme was the principle teacher. Roussel and Vuillard then entered the Académie Julian in 1888 and joined Maurice Denis (also a boyhood friend), Pierre Bonnard, Félix Vallotton, Henri Gabriel Ibels, Paul Elie Ranson, and Paul Sérusier. This group of students formed the Nabi group the following year. Vuillard shared a studio with Bonnard, Denis, and Lugné-Poe (a long-time friend who became a leading theater director) in 1890. He exhibited with the other Nabis in 1891, attended Stéphane Mallarmé's famous Tuesday evenings, and received attention from the symbolist critic Albert Aurier. Unimpressed, however, with Symbolist theories, Vuillard primarily painted intimate interiors and scenes from Montemartre; he also did theater scenery, etchings, lithographs, and large decorative panels.
Vuillard was the most prolific of the Nabis artists. His work was admired for its flowing and disciplined draftsmanship, muted and harmonious colors, and occasionally daring composition as well as its sophisticated technique of mixed media-oil, tempera, gouache, and pastel, often on board. He never married, and resided with his mother until her death in 1928. She often appeared in his domestic scenes, along with his sister, niece, and array of avant-garde colleagues. Vuillard and his fellow Nabis were part of the convivial group of supportive artists, writers, and musicians who formed a circle around brothers Thadée and Alfred Natanson and their journal, La Revue Blanche.
Adapted from
- Gail Davitt, "Biographical essay," DMA research document, 1986-1987, Education files.
- Richard Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995), 113.
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS
Collections smartphone audio about Edouard Vuillard; related to Chestnut Trees, a Cartoon for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Stained-Glass Window, 2010.15.McD, DMA Collection
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Belinda Thomson, "Edouard Vuillard: Exploring the Limits of Intimism," lecture April 1, 2010, Dallas Museum of Art. Transcribed. (Lecture was one of two delivered on the same evening. Dr. Thomson gave her presentation first.)
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IMAGE ASSETS
Edouard Vuillard, Self-Portrait, 1889, oil on canvas, aged 21 years of age
Source: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Wikimedia Commons, accessed July 14, 2016.
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WEB RESOURCES
- Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, The Jewish Museum, New York City (2012)~Look through this exhibition website with biographical essays, photographs, information about Vuillard's patrons, and details about what happened to his paintings during WWII.
- Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage on Vuillard~Watch a 2012 lecture by contemporary artist Lisa Yuskavage and Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator at The Jewish Museum (New York City), discussing the paintings of Edouard Vuillard and his influences on twenty-first century artists.
- Édouard Vuillard, National Gallery of Art (2003)~Listen to curator Kimberly A. Jones' lecture introducing an exhibition dedicated to Vuillard.
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General Description
Edouard Vuillard was born in 1868 at Cuiseaux, Saone-et-Loire. He was dissuaded from attending a military school by his friend Ker-Xavier Roussel. At Roussel's instigation, he began art studies at the École des Beaux Arts in 1886 when Jean-Léon Gérôme was the principle teacher. Roussel and Vuillard then entered the Académie Julian in 1888 and joined Maurice Denis (also a boyhood friend), Pierre Bonnard, Félix Vallotton, Henri Gabriel Ibels, Paul Elie Ranson, and Paul Sérusier. This group of students formed the Nabi group the following year. Vuillard shared a studio with Bonnard, Denis, and Lugné-Poe (a long-time friend who became a leading theater director) in 1890. He exhibited with the other Nabis in 1891, attended Stéphane Mallarmé's famous Tuesday evenings, and received attention from the symbolist critic Albert Aurier. Unimpressed, however, with Symbolist theories, Vuillard primarily painted intimate interiors and scenes from Montemartre; he also did theater scenery, etchings, lithographs, and large decorative panels.
Vuillard was the most prolific of the Nabis artists. His work was admired for its flowing and disciplined draftsmanship, muted and harmonious colors, and occasionally daring composition as well as its sophisticated technique of mixed media-oil, tempera, gouache, and pastel, often on board. He never married, and resided with his mother until her death in 1928. She often appeared in his domestic scenes, along with his sister, niece, and array of avant-garde colleagues. Vuillard and his fellow Nabis were part of the convivial group of supportive artists, writers, and musicians who formed a circle around brothers Thadée and Alfred Natanson and their journal, La Revue Blanche.
Adapted from
- Gail Davitt, "Biographical essay," DMA research document, 1986-1987, Education files.
- Richard Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995), 113.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, The Jewish Museum, New York City (2012)~Look through this exhibition website with biographical essays, photographs, information about Vuillard's patrons, and details about what happened to his paintings during WWII.
- Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage on Vuillard~Watch a 2012 lecture by contemporary artist Lisa Yuskavage and Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator at The Jewish Museum (New York City), discussing the paintings of Edouard Vuillard and his influences on twenty-first century artists.
- Édouard Vuillard, National Gallery of Art (2003)~Listen to curator Kimberly A. Jones' lecture introducing an exhibition dedicated to Vuillard.
Notes
Removed TMS tags for 2000.190.FA, 2001.26, 2006.47.9, 2010.15.McD,
Added UMO for mobi stop 102.
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Artist born (geography) Cuiseaux (France)
Artist active (geography) Montmartre, Paris
Review UMO for Image Asset
This note was previously tagged #routed (and possibly !Routed_Feb15). I am removing those tags and replacing with #draft so that this note proceeds to GDocs for routing and is harvested to Brain. (EAS, 12/26/2016)
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