His impressionist-style brushstrokes to the contrary, Edouard Vuillard had no interest in an objective depiction of the world. Instead, Vuillard and his circle (the Nabis, from "prophet" in Hebrew) painted with the intention of communicating interior feelings--passion or homely delight or, sometimes, claustrophobia. And most of Vuillard's paintings depict interiors--parlors and living rooms, crowded with furniture and busy with patterned textiles in a typical fin de siecle fashion. Even his best known landscape, Place Vintimille, is seen from within his apartment. Like his colleague Pierre Bonnard, Vuillard (1868-1940) concerned himself with the modest pleasures of middle class domesticity. That he captured them with affection and quiet power, supported by brilliant use of color, formal tension and a remarkable ability to interpret light's more subtle filtered effects, can be seen in the paintings reproduced in this folio. Ten 5 x 7" full-color blank note cards (5 each of 2 designs) and ten white envelopes. ISBN:0-7649-3720-0. Published with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. |
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