Major Painter of the End of the 19th Century nd from the beginning of the 20th century In the 19th century, Édouard Vuillard composed portraits, genre scenes and still lives with colorful nuances and intimate patterns.

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In 1886, he entered the Académie Julian, a private school of painting and sculpture, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury. The following year, he joined the Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under the Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.

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In 1889, he joined the Nabi movement - “prophet” in Hebrew - founded by his friend Paul Sérusier and joined by Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Paul-Elie Ranson. Dissident painters gather in Pont-Aven to reflect on spiritualist considerations, thus placing themselves between art, symbolism, occultism and esotericism. From 1891, Édouard Vuillard tried his hand at illustration and lithography but also in creating interior decorations.

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His work has joined the public collections of numerous museums, including the MET Museum in New York and the Orsay Museum in Paris, but also the private collection of Claude Roger-Marx. In 2022, Galerie AB is bringing its work into dialogue with that of its friend Pierre Bonnard during the exhibition event A friendship.