Edouard Vuillard was not as widely known as the Impressionist masters. But he created more than 3,000 paintings between the late 1800s and his death in 1940. NPR's Susan Stamberg tours the most ...

IN THE PAST DECADE, there have been no fewer than three major exhibitions of Edouard Vuillard, starting with the Musée d’Orsay in 2003. France’s eccentric painter of wallpaper, his mother and ...

Was it bizarre to have Lisa Yuskavage, the notorious painter of preposterously pulchritudinous young women, discussing the subtle intimist Edouard Vuillard, who is the subject of a retrospective at ...

2 of 9 — Natanson and his wife, Misia, shown here in Cannes in 1901, were prominent tastemakers in French cultural life — they brought together Paris' intellectual and artistic superstars. 3 of 9 — ...

Using post as a prefix for a chapter in art history can strike the ear as suggesting a period that, if not exactly a letdown from the one immediately preceding it, was too eclectic to earn its own ...

Where would art be without the never-ending argument between imagination and reality? All art necessitates a leap of the imagination. All art, whether naturalistic or not, makes its own reality. And ...

This Édouard Vuillard masterpiece weaves colors and brushwork in surprising ways. The French painter Édouard Vuillard wanted to cast our lumbering, cloddish, here-to-stay selves in softer, more ...

Edouard Vuillard rarely left the Paris apartment he shared with his elderly mother, and at first sight his paintings appear inconsequential, like the kind of random snaps you can’t decide whether to ...

Shy as he seemed to be, he did have a gift for friendship, and with his other artist friends, whom he had met when they all studied in the 1880s at the Académie Julian had formed the Nabis (Hebrew for ...

A new exhibit in New York explores the life of Edouard Vuillard — a lesser-known, intellectual Parisian artist — and the Jewish tastemakers... Vuillard: A Parisian Painter And His Jewish Patrons In ...