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Madame Bonnard

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:05:59 -0800

Madame Bonnard, 1895/1900, oil on cardboard by Edouard Vuillard

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Young Girl Reading

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:09:36 -0800

Young Girl Reading, c. 1868, oil on paperboard on wood by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Woman in a Striped Dress

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:11 -0800

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Woman in a Striped Dress, 1895, oil on canvas by Edouard Vuillard

Vuillard belonged to a quasi-mystical group of young artists that arose in about 1890 and called themselves the Nabi, a Hebrew word for prophet. The Nabi rejected impressionism and considered simple transcription of the appearance of the natural world unthinking and unartistic. Inspired by Gauguin's work and symbolist poetry, their paintings evoke rather than specify, suggest rather than describe. Recognizing that the physical components of painting -- colored pigments arranged on a flat surface -- were artificial, they considered as false the traditional convention of regarding paintings as re-creations of the natural world.

Woman in a Striped Dress is one of five decorations Vuillard painted in 1895 for Thadée Natanson, publisher of the avant-garde journal La Revue Blanche, and his wife Misia Godebska, an accomplished pianist. The five, which differ in size and orientation, are intimate, self contained interiors, Vuillard's principal subject. All display rich harmonies in a restricted range of color and densely arranged in intricate patterns. The introspective woman arranging flowers here perhaps represents the red-haired Misia, whom Vuillard admired greatly. Vuillard adopted the symbolist idea of synesthesia, whereby one sense can evoke another, and in Woman in a Striped Dress the sumptuous visual qualities of Vuillard's reds may suggest the lush chords of music that Misia performed.

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Fallen Tree

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:56 -0800

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Fallen Tree, 1839/1845, oil on paper on canvas by Alexandre Calame

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The Yellow Curtain

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:09 -0800

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The Yellow Curtain, c. 1893, oil on canvas by Edouard Vuillard

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Paris, Rue de Parme on Bastille Day

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:35 -0800

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Paris, Rue de Parme on Bastille Day, 1890, oil on canvas by Pierre Bonnard

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The Conversation

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:21 -0800

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The Conversation, 1891, oil on canvas by Edouard Vuillard

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Portrait of a Young Girl

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:08:21 -0800

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Portrait of a Young Girl, 1850 or 1859, oil on canvasby Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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French Theater

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:09:30 -0800

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French Theater, c. 1856, oil on wood by Honoré Daumier

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Vase of Flowers on a Mantelpiece

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:56 -0800

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Vase of Flowers on a Mantelpiece, c. 1900, oil on cardboard by Edouard Vuillard

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Wandering Saltimbanques

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:09:06 -0800

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Wandering Saltimbanques, 1847/1850, oil on wood by Honoré Daumier

Best known for political cartoons and humorous caricatures satirizing contemporary life, Daumier's paintings reveal a more serious examination of the human condition. The itinerant street musicians and acrobats in Wandering Saltimbanques are depicted without ridicule, the artist sympathetically revealing the poverty and isolation of their offstage lives.

Daumier may have felt a personal affinity with the entertainers. The little boy carrying a chair could be a recollection of Daumier's childhood, when his family, destitute and living in Paris, endured numerous displacements to progressively worse lodgings. Further, it has been suggested that the older clown clad in traditional costume and leading his family in this painting may be associated with the artist's father, a failed poet and playwright committed to the insane asylum at Charenton in 1851, where he died.

Daumier was self-taught as a painter, and his style has many characteristics of the graphic media in which he trained. The blunt silhouettes of the figures and the simplified space they occupy are stylistic elements that originated in his lithographs. The unspecific, indefinite appearance thus produced endows them with more universal meaning. Personal associations aside, the saltimbanques here are artists struggling to make their way in a world that, as Daumier depicts it, is a bleak, anonymous place.

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Ville-d'Avray

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:38 -0800

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Ville-d'Avray, c. 1865, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Woman in Black

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:22 -0800

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Woman in Black, c. 1891, oil on cardboard by Edouard Vuillard

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The Artist's Paint Box and Moss Roses

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:27 -0800

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The Artist's Paint Box and Moss Roses, 1898, oil on cardboard by Edouard Vuillard

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Two Women Drinking Coffee

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:03 -0800

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Two Women Drinking Coffee, c. 1893, oil on cardboard by Edouard Vuillard

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Italian Peasant Boy

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:08:08 -0800

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Italian Peasant Boy, 1825/1827, oil on paper on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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The Cab Horse

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:40 -0800

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The Cab Horse, c. 1895, oil on wood by Pierre Bonnard

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River View

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:07:50 -0800

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River View, 1868/1872, oil on wood by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

The Artist's Studio

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:08:02 -0800

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The Artist's Studio, c. 1868, oil on wood by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Breton Village

nobody@flickr.com (cliff1066™) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:05:51 -0800

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Breton Village, c. 1890, oil on canvas by Odilon Redon

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