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...EDOUARD VUILLARD lived most of his 72 years in the 20th century, but he was essentially a 19th century man. He achieved artistic fame in Paris before he was 30, soon after 1900 slipped into the critical obscurity that engulfed the last 40 years of his life...
Last week a big retrospective exhibition of Vuillard's work-130 paintings and 28 lithographs at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-was helping to restore Vuillard to his place among the 19th century masters...
...looked like the products of a well-sterilized laboratory. Enclosed in fat, silvered frames, they hung in an atmosphere of pearl-grey carpets and Bach suites dripping from hidden amplifiers. Sweeney changed all that. He found the storerooms filled with first-rate works by modern Europeans from Bonnard to Vuillard, hung them in brilliantly arranged rotating shows. The Guggenheim's walls are now sparkling white; there are few distracting frames and the pictures hang at eye level, have space enough to strike the viewer with maximum effect. With these reforms-and acquisitions such as its new Cézanne...
When James Ensor was 19 he painted portraits from a palette like that of America's Albert Pinkham Ryder (then 32), two years later bourgeois interiors in the expressionistic manner of Jean Edouard Vuillard (then 14). At 29 Ensor painted a horse careening across a sky a la Marc Chagall (then 2). Fifty-four years ago Ensor scandalized even the most audacious art lovers with his Entry of Christ into Brussels. This canvas showed a vast crowd of leering men & women, one a skeleton, others with masks, around a hardly noticeable Christ, abject upon a mule...
...Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...