The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Game of Checkers
1899
(French, 1868–1940)
printer
(French, 1858–1936)
publisher
(French, 1867–1939)
Sheet: 38 x 30.8 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/8 in.); Image: 33 x 25.7 cm (13 x 10 1/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.2
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 32
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Checkers is derived from the ancient Middle Eastern game of Qirkat.Description
Ambroise Vollard (1865–1939), a dealer in Impressionist paintings, was also an important print publisher. In 1895 he commissioned his first portfolio from Pierre Bonnard: 12 color lithographs called Some Aspects of Paris Life (one of them is shown nearby). This was followed by many other albums of prints, including Vuillard's Landscapes and Interiors. Bonnard and Vuillard were members of a group of artists called the Nabis—the Hebrew word for "prophet"—which evokes both their playful mysticism and their determination to develop a new artistic language based on the notion that form and color could be used expressively. The Nabis favored subjects of the modern city and middle-class family life depicted in a decorative and even whimsical manner. Vuillard's intimate scenes of comfortable domesticity are wonderful examples of the beautiful color lithography produced in the 1890s.- ?-1951(William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)1951-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 51; Reproduced: P. 79, no. 24
- Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
- {{cite web|title=The Game of Checkers|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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