1920, Edouard Vuillard, Garden at Vaucresson -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This painting was begun in 1920 at Vaucresson, a residential suburb west of Paris, where Vuillard's friends Lucy and Josse (Jos) Hessel had recently purchased the house depicted in the background. Jos, a partner in the art firm of Bernheim Jeune, had become Vuillard's dealer in 1912His wife was one of Vuillard's great loves; their relationship spanned more than three decades, until the artier's death in 1940.
The woman in a housedress standing at right is Lucy's cousin Marcelle Arom. Lucy kneels across from her, at left, camouflaged by one of the large rosebushes that serve as a decorative screen in the foreground.
1920, Edouard Vuillard, Garden at Vaucresson -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This painting was begun in 1920 at Vaucresson, a residential suburb west of Paris, where Vuillard's friends Lucy and Josse (Jos) Hessel had recently purchased the house depicted in the background. Jos, a partner in the art firm of Bernheim Jeune, had become Vuillard's dealer in 1912His wife was one of Vuillard's great loves; their relationship spanned more than three decades, until the artier's death in 1940.
The woman in a housedress standing at right is Lucy's cousin Marcelle Arom. Lucy kneels across from her, at left, camouflaged by one of the large rosebushes that serve as a decorative screen in the foreground.