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Edouard Vuillard
France, 1868-1940
Femme en bleu, 1891
Oil on canvas
9 x 6 1/2 in.
The Aaron M. and Clara Weitzenhoffer Collection, 2000 |
In 1890, Vuillard's fellow Nabi artist
Maurice Denis wrote that "a picture–before being a war-horse,
a nude woman, or some sort of anecdote–is essentially a surface
covered with colors arranged in a certain order." Femme
en bleu, as it hovers between abstraction and figuration, calls
attention to these conditions of picture-making.
Vuillard was a poet of the commonplace,
transforming interiors into realms of mystery.
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