# Edouard Vuillard artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1868-11-11
- Death date: 1940-06-21
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Les Nabis, Intimisme
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Lithography and printmaking, Posters, decorative panels, and theatrical design

## Portrait

![Edouard Vuillard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Self-Portrait%2C_Aged_21_A21192.jpg/1280px-Self-Portrait%2C_Aged_21_A21192.jpg)
Édouard Vuillard · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-Portrait,_Aged_21_A21192.jpg

## About Edouard Vuillard

Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter, draughtsman, designer, lithographer, printmaker, and decorative artist. Around 1890 he joined Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and other members of Les Nabis. His 1890s work is especially associated with compressed domestic interiors, flattened space, dense pattern, and the influence of Japanese woodblock prints and Gauguin. Family rooms, fabrics, lamps, women, and intimate social settings became central visual material, while his practice also extended to posters, theater sets, and decorative panels. Around 1900, Vuillard moved toward a more naturalistic manner and, with Bonnard, became associated with Intimisme. He continued to depict interiors and gardens while also producing landscapes and portraits. Collectors therefore encounter his name across several object types and stylistic phases: patterned Nabi paintings, later intimate domestic scenes, works on paper, lithographs, posters, and decorative projects. Placing a work within that chronology and medium is essential to meaningful comparison.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in collection and appraisal contexts may include paintings of patterned domestic interiors, gardens, portraits, landscapes, and Montmartre scenes. Vuillard also produced drawings, lithographs and other prints, posters, theater sets, and decorative panels. His 1890s Nabi works often emphasize flattened space and ornamental pattern, while later works generally use a more naturalistic treatment of interiors, figures, and outdoor settings.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying the object type and placing it within Vuillard’s artistic chronology. Institutional sources distinguish his patterned, spatially compressed Nabi work of the 1890s from his more naturalistic and Intimist work after about 1900. Subject also helps organize comparisons: interiors, gardens, portraits, landscapes, and Montmartre scenes belong to documented areas of his practice. These distinctions provide a framework for selecting comparable works but do not establish authenticity or value by themselves. Because the supplied source pack contains no specific auction-house lot records, condition reports, provenance files, or edition documentation, no price trend or scarcity conclusion is offered here. Available auction records should be compared by medium, date, subject, and documented sale context.

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## Sources

- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6194
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/vuillard-douard-18681940
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17397031/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239394
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edouard-vuillard-2112
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1960.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard