Sunday, March 18, 2018

The Vuillard Interior

Édouard Vuillard
The Sunny Room
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Édouard Vuillard
Woman sweeping (Madame Vuillard)
ca. 1899-1900
oil on cardboard
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Édouard Vuillard
The Newspaper (Madame Vuillard)
ca. 1896-98
oil on cardboard
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Whenever I Saw You I Handed You a Bouquet, and

what about those nosegays?! If you were to return
I would give you more, for all you have given us, for
your going first. Those posies might have a
peony, a freesia, a tulip – an eye snack
and nostril snack. I could not get enough of
giving you coronation bundles, handing them
and almost bowing, tongue-tied with
respectful adoring, with gobbling
the sight of you the sound, the bouquets saying mother-
– we would not be here, without your song, your eye.

– Sharon Olds (2017), published in Poetry (Chicago)

Édouard Vuillard
Interior
1894
oil on cardboard, mounted on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Édouard Vuillard
Child playing - Annette Roussel in front of a wooden chair
ca. 1900
oil on cardboard
Art Institute of Chicago

Édouard Vuillard
Famille Vuillard à la Closerie des Genêts
ca. 1921-24
pastel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Édouard Vuillard
Vuillard's room at the Château des Clayes
ca. 1932
distemper on paper, mounted on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Édouard Vuillard
The meal
1899
oil on cardboard
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Édouard Vuillard
Woman sewing before a garden window
1895
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Édouard Vuillard
The artist's mother playing checkers
ca. 1890-91
pastel
Art Institute of Chicago

Édouard Vuillard
Interior with mother and child
ca. 1899-1900
oil on cardboard
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Édouard Vuillard
Femme près du lit
ca. 1891
pastel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Édouard Vuillard
At the café
ca. 1897-99
oil on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art

Édouard Vuillard
Café Wepler
ca. 1908-1912
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art