Edouard Vuillard. Thadée Natanson at His Desk. c. 1899, oil on cardboard, mounted on panel. Collection of Helen Frankenthaler.
Ever since I was in graduate school, I’ve known that Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a member of Les Nabis (Hebrew and Arabic for “prophets”), that group of avant-garde painters in the 1890s who took as their point of departure the “synthetism” of Paul Gauguin. I also knew that Read More