Intérieur aux Teintures Roses, No 3. Room Interior Drawn in Tones of Pink, No 3. by Édouard Vuillard, 1868-1940

Édouard Vuillard, 1868-1940
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Intérieur aux Teintures Roses, No 3. Room Interior Drawn in Tones of Pink, No 3.

Original lithograph in colours. 1898/99. From the edition of 100 impressions. Issued for the series: Paysages et Intérieurs, 1899. Drawn and printed at the studio of Clot, Paris 1898. Commissioned and published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris 1898.
Ref: Roger-Marx - Vuillard L'Oeuvre Gravé no 38

Excellent impression with strong colours. On off-white chine volant paper. Excellent original condition; not restored. Very good (?full) margins. Image: 13 1/2 x 10 3/4ins (342x274mm)

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One of the great high points of Vuillard's famous series of compositions in colour lithography in the late 1890's 'Paysages et Intérieurs' was the sequence of three interiors worked predominantly in tones of pink, the 'Intérieurs aux Teintures Roses'. The composition above is the third in the sequence. Soft but glowing tones of pink are linked with blue and yellow to evoke the dappled light and quiet emotion of the interior of Vuillard's home.

One of the prime motifs of Vuillard's art was the desire to capture the feeling of intimate domestic emotion. In the period of the 1890's he was using delicate patterns of colour to achieve this. At the same time he was fascinated by the way that interior views hint of parts of a family life that you cannot see but only sense. So the open door in the salon allows us to catch a view into the next room with the figure of Vuillard's mother seen in the doorway, and even of another almost secret room glimpsed in the background. It is this succession of spaces which gives these compositions their unique atmosphere.