The doors
(Les Portes)
(1894)
Medium
gouache on cardboard
Measurements
50.8 × 41.6 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1952
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Édouard Vuillard belonged to a group of artists who in the early 1890s called themselves Les Nabis, from the Arabic and Hebrew words for prophet. The Nabi artists considered themselves the prophets of a new design-based art that they envisaged encompassing every sphere of modern life – furniture, interior design, stained glass, fans and textiles, commercial illustration and advertising. The Nabi artists were committed to treating the surface of a painting as a site for exploration of flat colour and linear design, rather than the imitation of nature. In the 1890s Vuillard painted numerous small interiors like The doors, studies of the artist’s family home at 346 rue Saint- Honoré, where his mother Madame Vuillard ran a dressmaking business.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.r.: E Vuillard
Accession Number
2950-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Interiors
Subjects (specific)
back views doors doorways women (female humans)