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This delicate lithograph is likely set in the Paris apartment of the Vuillard family and shows the artist's sister, Marie, quietly seated in a chair with her hands primly folded in her lap. Another figure, probably their mother, can be partially glimpsed through the open door at left. Edouard Vuillard's layering of pattern-- Marie's striped dress set against the floral field of the wallpaper behind her-- emphasizes the surface of the image at the expense of creating an illusion of depth, an approach that was typical of Nabi art in the 1890s. In the same year that Marie posed for this print, she married her brother's close friend Ker-Xavier Roussel, another member of the Nabi group.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (2000.221.FA) for "Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis," October 2014.
NOTES
Entered current label into TMS.
Added source to bibliography.
Claude Roger-Marx, The Graphic Work of Edouard Vuillard, (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1990), no. 4, page 28
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Before 2000: Alfred and Juanita K. Bromberg, Dallas, TX
From 2000: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation of the Arts Collection, gift from the above [1]
[1] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
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- This print was published in La Revue Blanche in 1893 and 1895. The latter publication was as part of a suite of lithographs created by Vuillard's friends and fellow Nabis artists, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and Ker-Xavier Roussel. (Source- Claude Roger-Marx, The Graphic Work of Edouard Vuillard, (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1990), no. 4, page 28.)
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General Description
This delicate lithograph is likely set in the Paris apartment of the Vuillard family and shows the artist's sister, Marie, quietly seated in a chair with her hands primly folded in her lap. Another figure, probably their mother, can be partially glimpsed through the open door at left. Edouard Vuillard's layering of pattern-- Marie's striped dress set against the floral field of the wallpaper behind her-- emphasizes the surface of the image at the expense of creating an illusion of depth, an approach that was typical of Nabi art in the 1890s. In the same year that Marie posed for this print, she married her brother's close friend Ker-Xavier Roussel, another member of the Nabi group.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (2000.221.FA) for "Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis," October 2014.
Fun Facts
- This print was published in La Revue Blanche in 1893 and 1895. The latter publication was as part of a suite of lithographs created by Vuillard's friends and fellow Nabis artists, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and Ker-Xavier Roussel. (Source- Claude Roger-Marx, The Graphic Work of Edouard Vuillard, (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1990), no. 4, page 28.)
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Notes
Entered current label into TMS.
Added source to bibliography.
Claude Roger-Marx, The Graphic Work of Edouard Vuillard, (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1990), no. 4, page 28
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
sister
mother
figures
chair
sitting
interior spaces
pattern
wallpaper
doorway
teacup
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Before 2000: Alfred and Juanita K. Bromberg, Dallas, TX
From 2000: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation of the Arts Collection, gift from the above [1]
[1] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
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