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Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

1899
(French, 1868–1940)
(French, 1858–1936)
(French, 1867–1939)
France, 19th century
color lithograph
Sheet: 39.5 x 30.8 cm (15 9/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.7
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 37
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-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. 52; Reproduced: P. 82, no. 30
  • 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).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007).
    Art Nouveau in France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-November 27, 1988).
    Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964).
    Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 1961-January 7, 1962).
  • {{cite web|title=Interior with Pink Wallpaper II|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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