Edouard VuillardTechnique: Oil on canvas Measures” 18 x 15cmTitle” Everyday scene, church and indefinite characters.Signed” lower left corner “E Vuillard”Provenance” Private CollectionBiography:Jean-Édouard Vuillard, son of a retired captain, spent his youth in Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris under modest circumstances.After the death of his father, in 1883, Vuillard received his first studies at the Hermanos Maristas school, later he continued at the École Rocroy and later a scholarship to continue his education. At the Lycée Condorcet Vuillard he met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and who would eventually be his brother-in-law), Maurice Denis, the musician Pierre Hermant, the writer Pierre Véber and Lugné-Poë. He entered the School of Fine Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard.In 1885 Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet and joined his close friend Ker-Xavier Roussel in the studio of the painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training.In 1888, Vuillard joined the Nabís and participated in their exhibitions at the Le Barc Gallery in Boutteville. Later he shared a workshop with other members of the Nabís, Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis.Interior, 1902, Dallas Museum of ArtIn 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence. The following year he traveled to London. Later he went to Milan, Venice and Spain. Vuillard also traveled through Brittany and Normandy.In the 1890s he met the brothers Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, the founders of the Revue Blanche, and in 1892 he made his first decorations (frescoes) for the house of Mrs. Desmarais on their advice. Vuillard first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1901 and at the Salon d'Automne in 1903. He subsequently had many other similar commissions: in 1894 for Alexandre Natanson, in 1898 for Claude Anet, in 1908 for Bernstein, and in 1913 for Bernheim and for the Theater des Champs-Élysées. The last commission he received dates from 1938, it was for the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, where he worked with Bonnard and in 1937 the Palais des Nations in Geneva.2In his paintings Vuillard represented mainly interiors. It was the house where he lived with his mother and his workshop was his greatest inspiration, the artist paid attention to colors, materials, patterns and styles of clothing and accentuated his taste for detail. Much of his work reflected this decorative influence. His work represents the inner life of the model. it shows a part of the event, which invites the viewer to create the rest of the scene. The artist decided to paint everyday life, the daily and simple things that would be forgotten. Vuillard died at Baule-Escoublac in 1940.

This is in very good condition with age appropriate wear.