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Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) <I>Landscapes and Interiors: The Game of Checkers</I>, 1899
Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)
Landscapes and Interiors: The Game of Checkers, 1899
Color lithograph
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.2

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

Ambroise Vollard, a dealer in Impressionist paintings, became an important print publisher. In 1895 he commissioned his first portfolio from Pierre Bonnard, twelve color lithographs, Some Aspects of Paris Life. This was followed by many other albums of prints, including Vuillard's Landscapes and Interiors.

Bonnard and Vuillard were members of a group of artists called the Nabis, the Hebrew word for "prophet," which evokes both their playful mysticism and their determination to develop a new artistic language based on the notion that form and color could be used expressively. The Nabis favored subjects of the modern city and middle-class family life depicted in a decorative and even whimsical manner. Vuillard's intimate scenes of comfortable middle-class domesticity are wonderful examples of the beautiful color lithography produced in the 1890s.

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