Edouard VuillardFrancia, 1868–1940Place Saint-Augustin
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Édouard Vuillard was commissioned to paint this city square in Paris, the Place Saint-Augustin, by a friend who lived nearby. This is one of several large decorative panels he made in distemper, a kind of paint made with water, chalk, pigment, and animal glue. Vuillard mastered the difficult medium, used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for theatrical backdrops, because he liked the matte effect of the paint when it dried.
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Nella vita di Edouard Vuillard
Tutta la vita1886–1927 · Luogo di lavoro
Paris
1911–1914
The Ballets Russes, Diaghilev and Isadora Duncan
Between 1911 and 1914 he attends performances of the Ballets Russes, dines with their director Sergei Diaghilev and with the American dancer Isadora Duncan, and frequents the Folies Bergère and the Moulin Rouge in their heyday.
1912
Declines the Légion d’honneur
Vuillard, Bonnard and Roussel are nominated for the Légion d’honneur, but all three refuse it; Vuillard tells a journalist that he seeks no reward for his efforts other than the esteem of people of taste.
1912
Commission for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
He receives an important commission for seven panels and three overdoor paintings for the new Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, including one of Sacha Guitry in his box and another of the comic playwright Georges Feydeau.
1914
Mobilised at the outbreak of the First World War
After the outbreak of war in August 1914 he is briefly mobilised as a highway guard, soon released from duty, and returns to painting.
