2018年1月16日 星期二

'The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)' by Eduoard Vuillard


National Gallery
'The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)' by Eduoard Vuillard is a combination of interior scene and still-life, showing Vuillard's room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. The richly-decorated walls compete with the still-life on the mantelpiece. Yet despite this interplay between the two-and the three-dimensional, the foreshortened mantelpiece, jutting almost out of the picture, marks the artist's move to a more naturalistic approach.
What's interesting about this painting is that on the reverse there is a rapid sketch of a woman with two dogs and two children on a beach. See this work in Room 41: http://bit.ly/2D5yzwW

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