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"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
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"title": "Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism",
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"According to Pierre Georgel, E\u0301douard Vuillard, K.-X. Roussel (Paris: Re\u0301union des Muse\u0301es nationaux, 1968), pp. 69, 145, cat. no. 14. Alfred Natanson used the pseudonym Alfred Athis for his playwright career.
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"description": "passed to his daughter, Annette Charbonnier [1901\u20132002], Paris, France",
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"description": "passed to her son, Jean Philippe Charbonnier [1921\u20132004], Paris, France",
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"did_you_know": "In 1888, Vuillard wrote in his journal: \"A form or a color exists only in relation to another. Form does not exist on its own. We can only conceive of the relations.\"",
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"description": "This spare painting depicts a woman ironing a garment, while a sliver of light illuminates the side of her face and the cup held in her left hand. The subject belongs to a series of paintings of women ironing or sewing inspired by \u00c9douard Vuillard\u2019s close observation of his mother and sister making corsets and dresses in their crowded Parisian apartment.",
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"citation": "Georgel, Pierre. E\u0301douard Vuillard, K.-X. Roussel. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 16 mars-12 mai 1968. Orangerie des Tuileries, 28 mai-16 septembre 1968. Paris, France: Re\u0301union des Muse\u0301es nationaux, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 69; Reproduced: P. 145, no. 14",
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"citation": "Salomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. I, P. 281, no. IV-98",
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"citation": "Groom, Gloria. \"Edouard Vuillard.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 76-101. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 76-77; Mentioned: p. 273-274",
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"citation": "Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
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"biography": "After attending the Lyc\u00e9e Condorcet, \u00c9douard Vuillard entered the studio of history painter Diog\u00e8ne Maillart (1840-1926). In 1886 he enrolled at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Bouguereau (q.v.). The following year he was accepted into the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and was briefly in the atelier of G\u00e9r\u00f4me (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 \u00c9mile 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 Com\u00e9die des Champs-Elys\u00e9es 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.",
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