Interior with Pink Wallpaper I
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
printer Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936)
publisher Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)
1899
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 39.4 x 30.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The optical beauty of the patterning and luscious color of Interior with Wallpaper I, II, and III distracts from their ambivalent undercurrents. Across the three sheets, Vuillard creates an airless enclosure in which the wallpaper replicates itself, metastasizing across the surface and threatening the figures partially glimpsed through interior doors. Hidden figures recur in Vuillard’s work, adding an element of the uncanny to familiar settings.
