id: 89176
accession number: 2020.159
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Interior with a Screen, c. 1893. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Lithograph on buff wove paper; image: 25 x 31 cm (9 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.); sheet: 27.7 x 38.1 cm (10 7/8 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.159
title: Interior with a Screen
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creation date: c. 1893
creation date earliest: 1888
creation date latest: 1898
current location:
creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture: France, late 19th - 20th century
technique: lithograph on buff wove paper
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Roger-Marx 8
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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.
* Edward Ancourt (French, 1841–1898?) - printer
* Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939) - publisher
French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939
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measurements: Image: 25 x 31 cm (9 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 27.7 x 38.1 cm (10 7/8 x 15 in.)
state of the work: I/I
edition of the work: Edition of approximately 20
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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).
title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne
date: ?-by 2007
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(R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara, CA, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH)
date: ?-2007
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Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2007-2020
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020-
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RELATED WORKS
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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. 48; Reproduced: P. 70, no. 14
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.159/2020.159_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.159/2020.159_print.jpg
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