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Edouard Vuillard

The Garden in Front of the Studio

1901

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Edouard Vuillard

The Garden in Front of the Studio

1901

Physical Qualities Color crayon and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 680 x 522 mm. (26 3/4 x 20 9/16 in.) Image: 638 x 480 mm. (25 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the album "Germinal"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1939.173
In this view of the garden below his studio, Vuillard uses a high perspective to depict the early stirrings of spring. Surrounded by dull gray buildings, the organic forms of the greenery in the garden provide a delicate contrast. With the exception of a few orange dots, he has chosen to represent this greenery with a generalized natural form, avoiding detail. A female figure sits outside, probably unaware of the artist upstairs.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1939; purchase by Blanche Adler in Paris from Le Garrec-Sagot for 450 frs.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.

Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.

BMA, "Toulouse Lautrec and his Contemporaries," 27 May - 17 August 1986.

BMA, American Wing Rotation, February 7, 2018 - December 10, 2018.

Signed: 8

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "E. Vuillard"

Artist

Edouard Vuillard

French, 1868-1940

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