Édouard Vuillard

Édouard Vuillard is a French Post-Impressionist and Nabis painter and lithographer, intimist master of Parisian bourgeois life whose work captures with remarkable psychological subtlety the muffled atmosphere of domestic interiors. Founding member of the Nabis group alongside Bonnard and Denis, he develops a decorative style characterized by complex compositions with intertwined patterns, flattened perspectives and a refined chromatic palette that blurs the boundaries between figures and settings. His intimate interior scenes - bourgeois salons, sewing workshops, public gardens - reveal meticulous observation of daily life and human relationships, capturing the silences and underlying tensions of Belle Époque society. Also a painter of large mural decorations for theaters and private residences, he excels in the art of transforming architectural space into decorative surface while preserving an emotional and narrative depth that makes him one of the great visual chroniclers of his era.