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Series Title: Landscapes and Interiors

Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

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: 39.5 x 30.8 cm (15 9/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.7
Catalogue raisonné
Roger-Marx 37
State
II/II
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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This soft, pink interior scene likely depicts one of several Parisian apartments Vuillard shared with his mother and older sister.

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 color lithograph on vertically oriented paper depicts a dense interior scene with grainy textures and sketchy, multi-colored lines. On the left, a large pale yellow lampshade sits atop a tall blue vessel and red draped furniture. Muted pink wallpaper with a repeating red floral pattern covers the background, punctuated by a small rectangular frame. To the right, a grid-patterned curtain borders the composition, balancing the cluttered, overlapping shapes of the room.

Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

1899

Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard

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

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