Édouard Vuillard. In the Louvre

Name: Édouard Vuillard. In the Louvre
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SKU: 9783777437590
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Paintings for a Basel Villa

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In 1921/22, Édouard Vuillard painted a cycle of six artworks depicting the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large paintings illustrate exhibition rooms in the Louvre, spanning from Antiquity to French Rococo art. Two smaller pieces offer an intimate view of Vuillard's own art collection. Created shortly after World War I and the Louvre's reopening, these works serve as a humanist tribute to museums' role in safeguarding human creativity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in fine art, museum studies, and early 20th-century European painting, as well as those fascinated by the cultural history of the Louvre.

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In 1921/22, Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two overdoors provide an intimate insight into the artist's art collection.

The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality as regards both content and form, but it to date has seldom been examined and exhibited. It was created immediately after the end of the First World War and the re-opening of the Louvre. Vuillard's Louvre pictures are a humanist manifesto for the social importance and responsibility of museums as places that preserve the evidence of human creativity for future generations.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777437590

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 January 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Basler Versicherung AG
Edited by Martin Schwandner
Contributions by M. Chivot
Contributions by L. Gloor
Contributions by D. Huber
Contributions by M. Schwander
Contributions by B. Vischer

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 960g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Martin Schwander is a curator at the Baloise Art Collection in Basel.