By the Worktable by Edouard Vuillard
By the Worktable by Edouard Vuillard
- 🎨 Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker, notably associated with the avant-garde group Les Nabis.
- 🏛️ Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, Vuillard’s work emphasized flattened planes of color, pattern, and form, particularly in interior scenes.
- 🎭 As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, designed stained glass, and created murals, blending fine art with decorative elements.
- 🖌️ After the Nabis disbanded, Vuillard’s style evolved to include more detail and vivid colors, with a shift towards landscapes and portraits.
- 🌆 He depicted urban scenes, gardens, and domestic interiors, capturing natural light and warmth in his later works.
- 🎭 Theater remained a significant theme throughout his life, reflected in his paintings of actors, directors, and scenes from performances.
- 🖼️ In his final years, Vuillard focused increasingly on portraiture, utilizing a precise technique to depict wealthy Parisians in their environments.
- Édouard Vuillard received official recognition from the French state in 1936 when commissioned to create a mural for the Théâtre national de Chaillot.
- 🖼️ In 1937, Vuillard received another major commission for a mural at the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva.
- 🎨 Vuillard was elected to the Académie des Beaux Arts in 1938 and had a major retrospective of his paintings at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs.
- 🏥 Vuillard suffered from pulmonary difficulties and died in June 1940.
Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame).
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.
