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Maman: Vuillard and Madame Vuillard (Paperback)
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Madame Vuillard is a particular focus of the work produced during
the initial decade of Edouard Vuillard's (1868 - 1940) career, the
1890s, when Vuillard was a member of the Nabis and forging an
artistic identity as part of the Parisian avant-garde. During this
period Vuillard and his widowed mother shared a series of modest
rented apartments in central Paris in which the artist sustained a
works-on-paper and (from 1897) amateur photographic practice out of
his 'studio-bedroom', whilst in the dining room Madame Vuillard ran
the corsetry business employing a handful of seamstresses including
Vuillard's sister. In these apartments Vuillard and Madame Vuillard
operated mutually supportive, parallel working practices, to the
extent that Vuillard put his mother and the fabric of her atelier
'in the picture' whilst she posed for his pencil and camera or
developed his photographs in the kitchen. Their Parisian
co-habitation, and Vuillard's portrayal of his mother across a
range of pictorial media, lasted until Madame Vuillard's death as
an elderly woman in 1928. This mutuality of working and living
practice will constitute one of the themes of this unique loan
exhibition, drawn from UK and Parisian collections and featuring
paintings, lithographs and other works on paper as well as
photographs. It will also explore the diverse domestic roles and
responsibilities of a petit-bourgeois widow at the turn of the
century in works that portray Madame Vuillard as seamstress;
resting after dinner; imparting maternal advice and care to her
daughter; as a woman at her toilette; and as the apartment's cook
and cleaner. The exhibition will also foreground Vuillard's
practice as modernist artist by focusing on the maternal fi gure in
relation to the specifi c formal properties of his work. These
include, in the 1890s at least, the paintings' diminutive size;
their shallow, simplifi ed compositional structure worked over with
dense webs or matt patches of pigment; and the omission of spaces
between fi gures and things. It was the intimacy (sometimes serious
or witty, often banal) of their maternal motifs, the intimate
formal relation between fi gure and ground and the intimate viewing
conditions these small works required of their viewers that caught
the attention of Vuillard's earliest critics, who in the 1890s fi
rst labeled him an 'intimiste' artist. This exhibition and
accompanying illustrated catalogue will locate Madame Vuillard as
muse, as motif and as everyday practical support at the core of
Vuillard's developing Intimism; an artistic corpus spanning 40
years. The exhibition catalogue will feature an essay on Madame
Vuillard's role in her son's practice by the exhibition's curator,
Dr Francesca Berry, and an essay on Vuillard and photography by
Mathias Chivot of the Archives Vuillard-Archives Roussel, Paris.
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