Painting the Moon Oct 19, 2009
Other Nabis included Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson and Edouard Vuillard, with a general desire to commune symbolic and spiritual intensity and creative work. Vallotton s 1895 Clair de Lune or Moonlight was done during his Nabis' association and is a deeply-toned scene of the moon behind clouds with a dreamlike floating quality. (Suite101.com)
Art.view: Bull for a night Mar 1, 2009
After the hammer came down on paintings by Edouard Vuillard, James Ensor, and Giorgio De Chirico, representatives from the Musee D Orsay, in the first two instances, and the Centre Pompidou, in the third, hollered Preemption. which the crowd greeted with polite applause. (The Economist)
Impressionist and Modern sale nets £63.42 million at Christie's Feb 8, 2009
Edouard Vuillard's "The Two Seamstresses" sold for 6 ... Failure could also have befallen the next lot, a highly unusual painting by Edouard Vuillard, who had kept it until his death in 1940. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A refreshing lucidity returns to art market Feb 7, 2009
The same remark applies to "The Two Seamstresses," an interior scene by Edouard Vuillard apparently left unfinished, judging from the omission of any detail in the characters and the setting. A commission bid rescued from failure the picture wildly estimated to be worth 5. (International Herald Tribune)
Art.view: Phew! Feb 7, 2009
Edouard Vuillard s rare painting of two women sewing, Les Couturi;res , which he painted when he was just 22 and which for years had hung in London s National Gallery, was consigned for sale last September by an elderly Swiss industrialist, Samuel Josefowitz. Its 5. (The Economist)
