Édouard Vuillard

Eduard Vuillard attended lessons from 1886 at the Académie Julian. A year later he was admitted to the more prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his training he came into contact with Paul Sérusier, who founded the painter group Nabis (literally 'the prophets') in 1888. Denis, Roussel and Pierre Bonnard also joined the group. Bonnard and Vuillard concentrated on lithography, but achieved little commercial success with this. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned each of the artists Vuillard, Denis, Roussel and Bonnard to produce an album with lithographs. These albums are considered as highlights in the history of graphic design. Like in his other work, Vuillard took his everyday, domestic surroundings as a source of inspiration.