In the summer of 2023, the Fondation de l'Hermitage revisits the work of Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) from the perspective of Japonism, which was in vogue in fin-de-siècle Paris. Composed around the delicate landscape painting La Maison de Roussel à La Montagne (1900), which is held by the Hermitage, this project shows the crucial influence of Japanese art in the production of the Nabi master. A great collector of ukiyo-e prints, Vuillard found in these exotic creations new formats, radical composition and framing, and singular motifs that profoundly nourished his aesthetic language. Produced between the 1890s and the First World War, a hundred or so paintings and engravings by the artist, a champion of everyday life and nature, will be displayed alongside masterpieces from the land of the Rising Sun.
On the occasion of the exhibition "Vuillard et l'art du Japon", Helene Bailly will lend two works by Edouard Vuillard, "Marie en corsage jaune" (1898), and "Elegante au Square des Batignolles" (1898) to the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Switzerland.
