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Vuillard's mysteries.(Edouard Vuillard)(Critical Essay)

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No artist has ever so suggested the soul of an interior--the sense of habitation.--Julius Meier-Graefe, on Vuillard

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.--Wallace Stevens

... peindre non la chose, mais l'effet qu'elle produit.

--Stephane Mallarme

There are few artists whose signature work is as immediately likable but at the same time as difficult to plumb as that of Edouard Vuillard. His best work is both supremely fetching and quietly unfathomable: as easy, familiar, and welcome as dinnertime yet fraught with--what? Aldous Huxley was a great ...

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