Interior with Pink Wallpaper III

Pattern and textile are paramount in Vuillard’s interiors, likely inspired by the many fabrics he would have encountered within his seamstress mother’s domestic atelier.

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 a textured interior. To the left, red floral wallpaper presses forward. Centered, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair in a striped dress and red scarf leans toward a doorway where yellow bands streak across white walls. An open door at the right cuts into the frame, revealing a hazy yellow chest of drawers nestled within blue and gray scribbled shadows beneath dark ceiling panels.

Interior with Pink Wallpaper III

1899

Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1868–1940), (French, 1858–1936), (French, 1867–1939)

France, 19th century

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