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Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 11, 1868 – June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.

Edouard Vuillard

Paintings

The Singer

Beneath the Trees

Madame André Wormser and her Children

The Earthenware Pot

The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)

The Terrace at Vasouy, the Garden

The Terrace at Vasouy, the Lunch

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Early years and education

Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father's death in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycée Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard's future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Véber, and Aurélien Lugné-Poë.

In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet. On the advice of his closest friend, Roussel, he refused a military career and joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, after three unsuccessful attempts, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.[1] Vuillard kept a private journal from 1888–1905 and later from 1907 to 1940.[2]
[edit] Les Nabis and after
Interieur, 1902, Dallas Museum of Art
'The Chestnuts, 1894-1895, Dallas Museum of Art

By 1890, the year in which Vuillard met Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier, he had joined the Nabis, a group of art students inspired by the synthetism of Gauguin.[3] He contributed to their exhibitions at the Gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville, and later shared a studio with fellow Nabis Bonnard and Maurice Denis. In the early 1890s he worked for the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre of Lugné-Poë designing settings and programs.

In 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence. The following year he made a trip to London. Later he went to Milan, Venice and Spain. Vuillard also traveled in Brittany and Normandy.

Vuillard first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1901 and at the Salon d'Automne in 1903. In the 1890s Vuillard met the brothers Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, the founders of the Revue Blanche. In 1892, on their advice, Vuillard painted his first decorations ("apartment frescoes") for the house of Mme Desmarais. Subsequently he fulfilled many other commissions of this kind: in 1894 for Alexandre Natanson, in 1898 for Claude Anet, in 1908 for Bernstein, and in 1913 for Bernheim and for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The last commissions he received date to 1937 (Palais de Chaillot in Paris, with Bonnard) and 1939 (Palais des Nations in Geneva, with Denis, Roussel and Chastel).

In his paintings and decorative pieces Vuillard depicted mostly interiors, streets and gardens. Marked by a gentle humor, they are executed in the delicate range of soft, blurred colors characteristic of his art. Living with his mother, a dressmaker, until the age of sixty, Vuillard was very familiar with interior and domestic spaces. Much of his art reflected this influence, largely decorative and often depicting very intricate patterns.

In 1912 Vuillard painted Théodore Duret in his Study, a commissioned portrait that signalled a new phase in Vuillard's work, which was dominated by portraiture from 1920 onwards.[4]

Vuillard served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919-1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.[5]

Vuillard died in La Baule in 1940.

Selected works
Breakfast, 1894, oil on cardboard, 26.9 x 22.9 cm. (Zoom)

* The Green Interior or Figure in front of a Window with Drawn Curtains (1891)
* Self Portrait (1892)
* Woman Sweeping (1892)
* Mother and Sister of the Artist (1893)
* The Yellow Curtain (1893)
* Married Life (1894)
* Woman in Blue With Child (Misia Natanson with Mimi Godebska, rue Saint-Florentin) (1899)
* Le Déjeuner à Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (1902)

Publications

* Edouard Vuillard & Claude Roger-Marx, Vuillard:His Life & Work, Paul Elek 1946 ASIN B00MJ444M
* Pierre Bonnard,Correspondence-Bonnard -Vuillard, Gallimard 2001 ISBN 978-2070760-763

Notes

1. ^ Thompson 1988, p. 10.
2. ^ Vuillard's private journal- a collage of notes, images and sketches 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940
3. ^ Thompson 1988, p. 18.
4. ^ Thompson 1988, p. 126.
5. ^ "Florence Meyer Blumenthal". Jewish Women's Archive, Michele Siegel. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/blumenthal-florence-meyer.

References

* Thompson, Belinda, Vuillard, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1988 ISBN 978-0714829555

Further reading

* Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petri, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 ISBN 3791319698 (German), (French)
* Guy Cogerval, Vuillard-Master of the Intimate Interior, Thames & Hudson, London 2002 ISBN 0-500-30109-3
* Edouard Vuillard, Edouard Vuillard, JPL Fine Arts, 1985 ASIN B00100R0HC

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