Édouard Vuillard, La Passerelle, Douze Pastels, 1966

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Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper mounted on backing museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. … more Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper mounted on backing museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Vuillard, Douze Pastels Présentés et Commentés par Jacques Salomon, 1966. Published by La Bibliotheque Des Arts, Paris; rendered by Daniel Jacomet, Paris; printed by l'atelier Jacomet, Paris, April 14, 1966. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Daniel Jacomet made the twelve fac-similés of this album that has been finished printing for typography on April 14, 1966 on the presses of the L'Imprimerie Union in Paris. The print run was limited to CCCL examples; XXV numbered examples from I to XXV, enriched with an original drawing by vuillard; CCC numbered examples from XXVI to CCCXXV; XXV numbered non-commerce examples; DE H. C. I A H. C. XXV.

JEAN-ÉDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a prominent member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of prominent figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings. less