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The Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts shows a retrospective in 1990.

In 1977 the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo sets up an important exhibition. He dies a little later in La Baule on the Atlantic coast on June 21, 1940. In 1940 Edouard Vuillard leaves Paris to flee the approaching troops. He finds his subjects right around him, his circle of family and friends. His works reflect simple settings and the realities of everyday life in Paris in his days. He also creates a great oeuvre of lithographs. However, his pictures do not entirely follow the "Nabis" symbolism, as they are characterized by a certain decency in form and color.Īmong his most important works are portraits and interior pictures. The image's colors do not primarily consider the exact reproduction of the object, but follow esthetic aspects.Įdouard Vuillards painting "Au lit" from 1891 is a prime example of the artistic wants of "Nabis". Inspired by Japanese color woodcuts and the painting of Paul Gauguin, the artists experiment with a new concept of image space, in doing so they attain a decorative flatness and pattern-like order of what is depicted. Providence, Rhode Island (Swann Galleries, New York, February 14, 1952, lot 47) Richard S. Together, along with Paul Sérusier, they found the artists group "Nabis" (Hebrew: "The Prophets") in 1890. Both attend the Académie des Beaux-arts as of 1888, and later the Académie Julian, where they also meet Pierre Bonnard and Félix Vallotton. He finds his way to painting through Roussel, his later brother in law. He gets to know Ker-Xavier Roussel and Maurice Denis at the Lycée Condorcet, who are his fellow students.