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Start with the repeated red marks of the wallpaper, then search for the people and furniture within them. Which outlines are easiest to lose in the pattern?
This color lithograph is the fifth plate in Vuillard’s 1899 series Landscapes and Interiors. Pink wallpaper with a dense red pattern spreads across most of the room, making furniture and figures harder to separate from their surroundings. The print brings the patterned intimacy of a domestic space onto paper; it is not an oil painting of the same subject.
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper · Image: 35.3 × 27.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Interior with Pink Wallpaper I, plate five from Landscapes and Interiors
- Artist
- Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936) published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939)
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Color lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 35.3 × 27.4 cm (13 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.); Sheet: 39.3 × 30.7 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.