Edouard Vuillard et Ker-Xavier Roussel : Landscapes

Exhibition Catalogue Edouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Landscapes, presented at the musée de l'Abbaye, Saint-Claude and musée d'art Roger-Quilliot de Clermont-Ferrand (2017).

One such shared interest was the landscape genre, which both artists returned to again and again, in paintings and drawings, as a site for stylistic experimentation.

In the 1890s, the two artists painted landscapes in order to renew the genre, filtering it through the radical, anti-naturalistic colors of the Nabis group.

By the 1920s and 1930s, Vuillard and Roussel were swept up in the "return to order," painting the landscape in a classicizing, decorative style.

This new volume examines the theme of the landscape in the oeuvres of the two painters, offering a new perspective on the evolution of European painting over the course of half a century.