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Collection Online as of March 26, 2024

The Avenue

The Avenue

1899
(French, 1868–1940)
(French, 1858–1936)
(French, 1867–1939)
Sheet: 33.2 x 45 cm (13 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 33
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Vuillard sought assistance from master printer Auguste Clot to tackle the technical difficulty of using many colors in a single print.

Description

In this small view of a Parisian avenue, city dwellers of various classes coexist, as a fashionably dressed woman is about to cross paths with a man carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders. The city street provides a microcosm of the capital.
  • ?-1951
    (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1951-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “The Nabi City.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 233; Reproduced: P. 259, no. 178
  • 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).
    Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
    Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964).
  • {{cite web|title=The Avenue|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.65.3