Edouard Vuillard : painter-decorator : patrons and projects, 1892-1912
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Edouard Vuillard : painter-decorator : patrons and projects, 1892-1912
Yale University Press, 1993
Available at / 17 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. 247-252
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), one of the most admired post-impressionist artists, is best-known for his small easel paintings and their charming portrayals of everyday life. However, a major part of his work during his early life was the painting of large decorative panels in the Parisian homes of wealthy private patrons, produced between 1892 and 1912. These panels - some fifty in total - have been little studied, due principally to the inaccessibility of many of them and the impossibility of their being included in exhibitions. In this book, the author offers an overview of these large-scale projects for decorative commissions, describing how they shaped the artist's thinking about his art and methods of working and the influence they had on his later work. She also discusses the state of private patronage, the nature of Vuillard's patrons, and the understanding of decoration in public and private contexts in turn-of-the-century Paris.
The book is lavishly illustrated, showing the panels in their original locations and as they appear today, and also includes other works by the artist and by his contemporaries - Bonnard, Monet and Seurat, amongst others, in order to compare and contrast Vuillard's achievements.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction: Vuillard in the 90's. Part 2 The Natanson circle and Vuillard's first decorative project, 1892-1893. Part 3 Women, children and public parks: the commission for Thadee and Alexandre Natanson, 1893-1894. Part 4 Feminine elegance and flowers: the commission for Misia Natanson and Dr. Vaquez, 1895-96. Part 5 Portraiture as decoration: the commission for Jean Schopfer, 1898-1901. Part 6 Landscape as decoration - transformation of place: the commissions for Adam Natanson and Jack Aghion, 1899. Part 7 Of lilies, haystacks and garden paths: the commission for the Bibesco princes, 1900, 1907-1908. Part 8 Of avenues, streets and squares: the commission for Henry Bernstein, 1907-1910. Part 9 Vuillard the "feerie Bourgeois": the commission for Marguerite Chapin, 1910-1911.
by "Nielsen BookData"
