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Interior with Pink Wallpaper III

Interior with Pink Wallpaper III

1899
(French, 1868–1940)
(French, 1858–1936)
(French, 1867–1939)
France, 19th century
color lithograph
Sheet: 39.2 x 34 cm (15 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.8
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 38
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-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. 83, no. 31
  • 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).
    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 III|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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