Edouard Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday

During the 1890s and early 1900s Édouard Vuillard (1868 1940) produced a body of work that combines intimate subject matter with abstract form through the simplification of pictorial elements and observation of decorative fabrics and wallpapers. Through these devices Vuillard developed an art that is unashamedly decorative and yet always replete with subtle suggestions of deeper meanings. In balancing form and content, psychological drama and abstraction, his pictures are about as close to poetry as any artist's, and all the more brilliant for their understatement and the near imperceptibility of their craft. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, this book offers a fresh look at the early career of this much-loved artist.