Monday, March 19, 2018

Pictorial Preferences of Édouard Vuillard

Édouard Vuillard
Deux ouvrières dans l'atelier de couture
1893
oil on panel
National Galleries of Scotland

Édouard Vuillard
La chambre rose
ca. 1910-11
oil on canvas
National Galleries of Scotland

Édouard Vuillard
La causette
1893
oil on canvas
National Galleries of Scotland

Édouard Vuillard
La cuisinière
1899
lithograph
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Recipe for an Ocean
                          in the absence of the sea

You have the ingredients on hand.
        Get to the edge of something,
        yourself best of all, and take
yourself in hand.  Take, I mean, your hand,
        trace out the blue menaces
        released and lapsing there,
watch closely around the wrist:  they will
        remind you what you must do.
        They are what you must do.  Be
them, until there is nothing but them,
        then you are ready.  Now take
       time, all there is in the house –
it does not have to be yours.  Take time
        and never for a moment
        losing track of what changes
back into yourself, bitter enough
        so that you will need almost
        no salt, mix well and then leap
over the edge.  Wait there.  When you can
        wait no longer, it is done.
        Serve at once.  It does not keep.

– Richard Howard, from Findings (New York: Atheneum, 1971)

Édouard Vuillard
Le pot de fleurs
ca. 1900-1901
oil on panel
National Galleries of Scotland

Édouard Vuillard
Nude in the studio
before 1939
pastel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
Nature morte au bougeoir
ca. 1900
oil on panel
National Galleries of Scotland

Édouard Vuillard
Marguerite Chapin in her apartment with her dog
1910
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
La liseuse au coussin
ca. 1905
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
Femme lisant
1909
distemper on paper, mounted on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
 Femme assise, tasse de café
1893
oil and tempera on cardboard
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Édouard Vuillard
Pot de grès et fleurs
1909
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Odilon Redon
Portrait of Édouard Vuillard
1900
lithograph
British Museum

Édouard Vuillard
Le petit manteau
ca. 1891
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland
(presented anonymously to the museum in memory of Vivien Leigh)