Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

Description

The optical beauty of the patterning and luscious color of Interior with Wallpaper I, II, and III distracts from their ambivalent undercurrents. Across the three sheets, Vuillard creates an airless enclosure in which the wallpaper replicates itself, metastasizing across the surface and threatening the figures partially glimpsed through interior doors. Hidden figures recur in Vuillard’s work, adding an element of the uncanny to familiar settings.

Provenance

(William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) (?-1951); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1951-)

Interior with Pink Wallpaper II

Edouard Vuillard

1899

Accession Number

1951.65.7

Medium

color lithograph

Dimensions

Sheet: 39.5 x 30.8 cm (15 9/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Hanna Fund