Édouard Vuillard

A leading French painter, Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) is known for the enigmatic nature of his interior scenes, his large-scale decorative works, and his key role within the Nabis movement.

Looking beyond the famous first ten years of his career, this monograph reassesses his entire artistic journey, which evolved over four decades towards a more mimetic style, marked by the influence of photography, a return to landscape painting and the reinvention of the bourgeois portrait. This richly illustrated volume, accompanied by a substantial critical apparatus, reveals a complex, irreverent and anti-modern artist, behind whom lies an attentive observer who is not the recluse one might suppose.