Vuillard-2012

CHRONOLOGY

1868 Born November 11 in Cuiseaux in the Saône-et-Loire. 1877 Moves to Paris and attends the Lycée Condorcet with Maurice Denis and Ker-Xavier Roussel. 1886 Attends classes at the Académie Julian and begins painting still-lives. 1888 – 89 With Pierre Bonnard, Denis, and Roussel joins the Nabis . 1891 Shares a studio with Bonnard and begins working in the theater designing sets. His first solo show takes place at the offices of La Revue Blanche where he meets Misia Godebska. 1892 Travels to Belgium, Holland and London with Roussel. Receives several commissions for decorative work from the Desmarais and Natanson families. 1893 – 94 Vuillard’s Grandmother Désirée Michaud dies and his sister Marie marries Roussel. Misia marries Thadée Natanson, editor of La Revue Blanche. 1895 – 96 Meets the art dealer Joseph Hessel and his wife Lucy. Lucy replaces Misia as Vuillard’s artistic muse and the two have an amorous relationship for the next forty years. 1897 Exhibits with other Nabi painters at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery. 1898 Collaborates with Bonnard and Roussel on decorations for the auditorium at the Théâtre des Pantins.

1899 Travels to London with Bonnard. 1901

First exhibitions at the Salon des indépendants. Spends the summers in Normandy. Exhibits in Brussels and in Vienna. 1903 Misia begins living with the newspaper magnate Alfred Edwards. She organizes regular salons to entertain the elite of Parisian artistic circles including Vuillard, Renior, Bonnard, and Callotton, as well as Ravel and Debussy. 1909 Spends the summer with the Hessels in St. Jacut, Brittany, painting landscapes. With Bonnard, visits Claude Monet in Giverny. 1910 – 14 Paints numerous commissioned portraits and decorations for the Hessels and their friends. 1915 – 17 Visits Roussel in Switzerland. 1925 – 27 Spends time at the Hessels’ new country home, the Château des Clayes. In Paris, moves with his mother to an apartment on the Place Vintimille. 1928 Vuillard’s mother dies. 1938 A major retrospective is held at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs. 1940 Dies in La Baule, Brittany