Lot #41
Intimé dates from the height of Vuillard’s Nabis period, when his pictures were at their most visually textured and saturated with color. The room depicted here is one in Misia and Thadee Nathanson’s summer cottage in Valvins, where Vuillard was a frequent house guest, along with the couple’s other artist-friends. Painted in 1896, this scene depicts a view of an occupied bedroom through an opened doorway. The catalogue raisonne explains that the slumbering figure is Cipa Godebski, the young Polish sculptor, whom Vuillard depicted at closer view in two other oils around the same time. In many of his depictions of the Nathanson’s cottage, Vuillard delighted in manipulating the spatial perspective and creating views that exploited the oddities and bohemian spirit of the interior furnishings and its inhabitants. The present work, with its unconscious subject enveloped beneath the bedclothes, is one of Vuillard’s most voyeuristic of these pictures.
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