He established his signature themes - interiors and the depiction of modern life - in the 1890s. The exhibition presents a selection from all stages of Vuillard’s long creative activity and is divided into the various phases of the artist’s career. In this glittering cultural milieu he became romantically involved with two fascinating women, Misia Natanson and Lucy Hessel, each of whom served as both patron and muse.Įdouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 traces the entire arc of Vuillard’s career, in which he pursued painterly experimentation in color, media, and ambience, especially in portraiture. Vuillard had unusually close and sustained relationships with his patrons some became intimate and lifelong friends. In these decades, the work of vanguard artists was supported by collectors, gallerists, publishers, and theater impresarios who encouraged modernist cultural experiments. Vuillard was at the heart of this creative ferment. During his lifetime, Paris was the capital of the international avant-garde, the laboratory of new styles in art, music, poetry, and prose. Vuillard’s career spans fifty years, from the fin-de-siècle to the German occupation of France. A quarter of the paintings have never been exhibited publicly in America before. Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 brings together works from public and private collections in the U.S. The exhibition explores Vuillard’s continuing significance from the turn of the 20th century to the onset of World War II. On view from May 4 through September 23, 2012, the exhibition will examine the prominence of key players in the cultural milieu of modern Paris, many of them Jewish, and their influence on Vuillard’s professional and private life. Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 will include more than 50 paintings as well as a selection of prints, photographs and documents exploring the crucial role played by the patrons, dealers and muses who comprised Vuillard’s circle. New York, NY - The art of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) - a painter who began his career as a member of the Nabi group of avant-garde artists in Paris in the 1890s - will be celebrated at The Jewish Museum in the first major one-person, New York exhibition of the French artist’s work in over twenty years.
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