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( 1868 – 1940 )

“The Hill at L’Etang-la-Ville”

Specifications

MediumOil on cardboard supported on canvas
SignedStamped with cachet lower left
Size19.00" × 22.00" (48.3cm × 55.9cm)
Framed Size26.00" × 29.00" (66.0cm × 73.7cm)
Dated c. 1900
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenanceThe Artists Studio
Jean-Pierre Selz Collection - Paris
Galerie Motte - Geneva 7th Nov 1969 Lot 53
This work is included in Vol. II of the Catalogue Raisonne "The Inexhaustible Glance" illustrated on page 579 Ref: VII-72

Summary

The picture is built on a single audacious decision: a wedge of chalky white slicing diagonally from upper left to lower centre, flattening the hillside into pure shape. It reads simultaneously as a sunlit path, a wall, and an abstract plane — the kind of ambiguity the Nabis prized, where observed nature and decorative design refuse to separate. Vuillard leaves the cardboard support bare in places, and those warm russet passages do real work. They glow through the thinned paint at the edges and along the horizon, warming the cool greens and lending the whole surface a unified tonal hum. Cardboard absorbs oil, producing the matte, fresco-like finish he favoured over canvas gloss. The right half dissolves into dense foliage, worked in short scrubbed strokes of blue-green and violet, punctuated by small yellow-white blossoms. Spindly trees scratch upward in dark line. Above, a pale band of sky meets a cloud of white blossom so similar in handling that the two nearly merge. L'Étang-la-Ville, west of Paris, was home to his brother-in-law Ker-Xavier Roussel, and Vuillard worked there repeatedly. The intimacy shows: this is not a vista but a corner, seen close and known well.
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    Edouard Vuillard

    Edouard Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he made friends with Maurice Denis, Lugné-Poe, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, later his brother-in-law. He studied in Maillart’s studio; for six weeks came under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and…

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