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Series Title: Landscapes and Interiors

Interior with Pink Wallpaper I

1899

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
printer

Auguste Clot

(French, 1858–1936)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
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Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
color lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 39.4 x 30.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.6
Catalogue raisonné
Roger-Marx 36
State
IV/IV
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Vuillard’s mother, Madame Marie Vuillard, appeared in over 500 of her son’s paintings and prints made between the 1880s and 1920s.

Description

The optical beauty of the patterning and luscious color of Interior with Wallpaper I, II, and III distracts from their ambivalent undercurrents. Across the three sheets, Vuillard creates an airless enclosure in which the wallpaper replicates itself, metastasizing across the surface and threatening the figures partially glimpsed through interior doors. Hidden figures recur in Vuillard’s work, adding an element of the uncanny to familiar settings.
A vertically oriented color lithograph depicts an interior dominated by pink wallpaper with a repeating orange pattern. At the upper right, a chandelier with yellow globes hangs from a pink ceiling. In the lower left, an orange lamp and yellow cabinet sit beneath a framed picture. To the right, a person with a light skin tone wearing a blue and white garment is framed within an open doorway.

Interior with Pink Wallpaper I

1899

Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1868–1940), (French, 1858–1936), (French, 1867–1939)
France, 19th century

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