After marrying her cousin, the couple entertained Proust, Mallarmé, Gide, Debussy, and were patrons of Monet, Renoir, Odilon Redon, Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Nabis
Domestic interiors that aren’t quite right, a woman’s black silhouette that seems to absorb light, a colour-coded account of Perseus rescuing Andromeda, and his last landscapes.
A field deserted during the harvest, crosses packing the war cemetery at Châlons, Susanne being blackmailed, the château above Les Andelys, and more.
Stories retold differently from Perseus and Andromeda, the Rape of Europa, and some atmospheric landscapes of Honfleur in snow and fog.
More mysterious interiors and cupboard views, a group portrait of the Nabis, and two of his models taking a break.
Eclectic and mysterious paintings first in academic style, then Naturalist, a few years as the ‘foreign Nabi’ before painting unusual landscapes.
Ten domestic interiors, places we take for granted, but Vallotton makes them thoroughly unsettling, with oddities and open narratives.
Paints using glue as their binder were revived by Pierre Bonnard, the Nabis and Odilon Redon in the late 19th century, with startling results.
Pastel paintings by these three Nabis, who underwent conventional training and explored different media. Later paintings by Roussel are really special.
He falls in love with Cagnes, moving first to a rented flat, then to a house built for him amid ancient olive trees. And he painted furiously.
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