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La Partie de Cartes by Edouard Vuillard
La Partie de Cartes
La Partie de Cartes by Edouard Vuillard
La Partie de Cartes by Edouard Vuillard

La Partie de Cartes

Artist (Cuiseaux, France, 1868 - 1940)
Datec. 1928
Mediumcolle medium on paper mounted on board
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 48.6 cm, Width: 60.9 cm
Frame: Height: 67.3 cm, Width: 79.4 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1947 with income from the Murray Fund.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG003042
Other Titles
  • The Game of Cards in the Large Drawing Room at Les Clayes
About MeEdouard Vuillard's career spanned a wealth of artistic movements, including Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. Yet he rejected the more radical of these movements and together with his friend Pierre Bonnard, came to be regarded as one of the last Impressionists and earned the epithet of Intimiste, due to a preference for painting intimate interiors.

In this scene, the unusual viewpoint which reveals a vast expanse of ceiling and the daring banishment of the human element to the back of the room, recall the random framing of the photographic lens. Indeed, Vuillard often used photographs as an aid to his painting.


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A characteristic painting of an intimate interior by Vuillard with an unusual viewpoint, where the figures are secondary to, and seem embedded within, the highly detailed, decorative and atmospheric surroundings.
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