id: 129173 accession number: 1951.65.8 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.65.8 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:09.923000 Landscapes and Interiors: Interior with Pink Wallpaper III, 1899. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Color lithograph; sheet: 39.2 x 34 cm (15 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.8 title: Interior with Pink Wallpaper III title in original language: series: Landscapes and Interiors series in original language: creation date: 1899 creation date earliest: 1899 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: color lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Roger-Marx 38 --- CREATORS * Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) - artist After attending the Lycée Condorcet, Édouard Vuillard entered the studio of history painter Diogène Maillart (1840-1926). In 1886 he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Bouguereau (q.v.). The following year he was accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts and was briefly in the atelier of Gérôme (q.v.). At this time he also studied seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the works of Chardin (1699-1779). By 1889 Vuillard was persuaded by his friend painter and theorist Maurice Denis (1870-1943) to join the newly formed group of artists known as the Nabis. The Nabis based many of their ideas on synthetism, first developed by Gauguin (q.v.) and Émile Bernard (1868-1941), in which the artist was to work not from nature but from memory. Vuillard's initial synthetist works reveal a preoccupation with pattern and bright colors, denying the three-dimensionality of the object. By 1892, however, his colors were more subdued, reflecting his desire to mimic the unusual lighting effects that he had seen in symbolist theater. Vuillard's first major commissions date from this time, including nine panels for the dining room of Alexandre Natanson and four decorative panels for the library of Dr. Henri Vaquez. In 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence, and the following year he and Bonnard (q.v.), a fellow member of the Nabis, made an excursion to London. Later they went to Milan and Venice and eventually to Spain. Vuillard also made trips to Brittany and Normandy. His first public commission came in 1912, when he was asked to paint panels for the foyer of the Comédie des Champs-Elysées in Paris. During that period he moved beyond the synthetism of the Nabis and returned to a more traditional perspective. At the same time he was accepting commissions for portraits. In 1936 he was chosen to paint a mural at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and was subsequently elected to the Institut de France. * Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936) - printer * Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939) - publisher French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939 --- measurements: Sheet: 39.2 x 34 cm (15 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.) state of the work: II/II edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Decorative Style opening date: 1961-09-08T04:00:00 Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 1961-January 7, 1962). title: Human Rights opening date: 1963-11-05T05:00:00 Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964). title: Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900 opening date: 2021-07-01T04:00:00 Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Pattern and textile are paramount in Vuillard’s interiors, likely inspired by the many fabrics he would have encountered within his seamstress mother’s domestic atelier. digital description: wall description: The optical beauty of the patterning and luscious color of Interior with Wallpaper I, II, and III distracts from their ambivalent undercurrents. Across the three sheets, Vuillard creates an airless enclosure in which the wallpaper replicates itself, metastasizing across the surface and threatening the figures partially glimpsed through interior doors. Hidden figures recur in Vuillard’s work, adding an element of the uncanny to familiar settings. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. page number: Mentioned: P. 52; Reproduced: P. 83, no. 31 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.65.8/1951.65.8_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.65.8/1951.65.8_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.65.8/1951.65.8_full.tif