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Album Cover of Album d'estampes originales - Edouard Vuillard
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A 1899 colour lithograph by Edouard Vuillard, designed as the cover for Ambroise Vollard's portfolio of original prints.
This lithograph serves as the cover for the 1899 portfolio titled Album d'estampes originales, published by the influential art dealer Ambroise Vollard. Edouard Vuillard, a member of the Nabis group, applied his characteristic interest in domestic intimacy and flattened pictorial space to this commercial commission. The design demonstrates the Nabis preoccupation with the decorative potential of the printed page, where typography and image occupy the same plane. The composition features a muted, earthy background that provides a neutral stage for the bold, white lettering. Vuillard employs a soft, green-toned foliage element at the top, which suggests a garden setting, a common motif in his work. The fence-like structure provides a rhythmic, linear quality that anchors the text. The lettering itself is hand-drawn, appearing almost as an organic extension of the scene rather than a separate graphic element. By integrating the text into the visual field, Vuillard avoids the traditional separation between illustration and information. Technically, the work displays the subtle layering of colour typical of late nineteenth-century French lithography. The ink application is varied, creating a tactile surface that mimics the texture of a sketch or a painting. The inclusion of the publisher's details at the bottom, 'edité par A. Vollard, 6 rue Laffitte Paris', confirms its purpose as a functional cover for a collection of prints by various artists. This piece reflects the period's interest in the synthesis of fine art and graphic design, where the boundaries between the gallery and the printed medium became increasingly porous. It remains a clear example of how the Nabis aesthetic transformed everyday objects into subjects of artistic exploration, prioritising surface pattern and colour harmony over traditional perspective or narrative depth.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
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Album Cover of Album d'estampes originales - Edouard Vuillard
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Fine Art Framed / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / Black frame
Artist Biography
Edouard Vuillard
Vuillard's father was a retired naval captain, twenty-seven years older than his mother. When the father died, Edouard was fifteen. His mother, a seamstress who ran a corset and dressmaking business from home, became the centre of his life and stayed there. They shared a series of small Parisian apartments until her death in 1928. He painted her more than five hundred times over four decades.
He joined the Nabis in the early 1890s, a group of young painters who took their name from the Hebrew word for prophets. The others (Bonnard, Denis, Serusier) were drawn to mysticism and esoteric philosophy. Vuillard was drawn to the interior. His mother's workroom, with its bolts of fabric, wallpaper patterns, and women in patterned dresses, became his subject. The paintings flatten space: the figure merges with the wallpaper, the dress dissolves into the upholstery, the room becomes a single surface of competing patterns. Critics called the approach Intimism.
He painted almost exclusively domestic scenes: rooms, tables, women sewing, women reading. The scale is modest. The colours are muted. There is no drama, no allegory, no mythology. The work assumes that a woman sitting in a chair in a room with good light is enough to make a painting, which it is.
He never married. He lived with his mother until she died and then lived alone. In the late twentieth century, historians began to reassess his decorative work (screens, murals, theatre sets for Lugne-Poe's Theatre de l'Oeuvre) and recognised that the small domestic paintings were not minor work but a deliberate programme: the interior as a subject equal to landscape or history.
He joined the Nabis in the early 1890s, a group of young painters who took their name from the Hebrew word for prophets. The others (Bonnard, Denis, Serusier) were drawn to mysticism and esoteric philosophy. Vuillard was drawn to the interior. His mother's workroom, with its bolts of fabric, wallpaper patterns, and women in patterned dresses, became his subject. The paintings flatten space: the figure merges with the wallpaper, the dress dissolves into the upholstery, the room becomes a single surface of competing patterns. Critics called the approach Intimism.
He painted almost exclusively domestic scenes: rooms, tables, women sewing, women reading. The scale is modest. The colours are muted. There is no drama, no allegory, no mythology. The work assumes that a woman sitting in a chair in a room with good light is enough to make a painting, which it is.
He never married. He lived with his mother until she died and then lived alone. In the late twentieth century, historians began to reassess his decorative work (screens, murals, theatre sets for Lugne-Poe's Theatre de l'Oeuvre) and recognised that the small domestic paintings were not minor work but a deliberate programme: the interior as a subject equal to landscape or history.
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