Oil paint on board
Tate Britain
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Contemporary Art Society
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edouard-vuillard-2112" aria-label="More by Edouard Vuillard" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edouard Vuillard</a>
Girl in an Interior
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929
actions: postures and motions
adults
couch
domestic
drinking
eating and drinking
furnishings
individuals: female
interiors
kitchen
leisure and pastimes
living room
Marchand, Miche
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
Savoir, Miche
sitting
tea set
woman
<p>Vuillard was associated with a group of young artists known as the Nabis, whose anti-naturalist, decorative style was influenced by Gauguin. He frequently used friends as models, but he was not a portraitist in a traditional sense. ‘I don’t make portraits’, he once said, ‘I paint people in their homes’. He obsessively studied the everyday objects and furnishings of middle class interiors, and represented his models as they might be seen by a friend or member of their family. The model here is Mme Alfred Savoir, known as Miche, an acquaintance of Vuillard’s friend and dealer, Jos Hessel.</p><p><em>Gallery label, December 2011</em></p>
painting oil paint board
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2006-05-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2006-05-05
After Impressionism
Collection based display
31 October 2022
8 February 2021
2021-02-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 5A
Collection based display
Girl in an Interior
support: 725 × 645 × 5 mm
frame: 870 × 790 × 45 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1929
<p>Vuillard was associated with a group of young artists known as the Nabis, whose anti-naturalist, decorative style was influenced by Gauguin. He frequently used friends as models, but he was not a portraitist in a traditional sense. ‘I don’t make portraits’, he once said, ‘I paint people in their homes’. He obsessively studied the everyday objects and furnishings of middle class interiors, and represented his models as they might be seen by a friend or member of their family. The model here is Mme Alfred Savoir, known as Miche, an acquaintance of Vuillard’s friend and dealer, Jos Hessel.</p>

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2011-12-05T00:00:00
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<p><b>Edouard Vuillard</b> 1868-1940</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/vuillard-girl-in-an-interior-n04436" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04436</span></a> <b>Jeune Femme dans un Intérieur</b> (Girl in an Interior) <i>c</i>.1910</p>
<p>Inscribed 'E. Vuillard' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on millboard, 28 3/8 x 25 1/4 (72 x 64) 
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: With Jos. Hessel, Paris; with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1919; with Alex. Reid, Glasgow, 1920; W.H. Howden; with Reid and Lefevre, London; CAS 1928 
<br/><i>Exh: Edouard Vuillard</i>, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, April 1912 (17) as 'Jeune Femme'; <i>A Century of French Painting</i>, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, May 1927 (58); <i>Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Some of the Works acquired by the CAS</i>, Tate Gallery, July-August 1935 (40); <i>Acquisitions of the CAS</i>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1946 (85); <i>Edouard Vuillard</i>, Wildenstein Gallery, London, June 1948 (23, repr.); <i>Paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard</i>, RSA, Edinburgh, August-September 1948 (81, repr.), dated <i>c</i>.1902; <i>CAS: The First Fifty Years 1910-60</i>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1960 (162) 
<br/><i>Repr: CAS Report 1928</i> (London 1929), p.9; Charles Terrasse, <i>French Painting in the XXth Century</i> (London-Paris-New York 1939), pl.12</p>
<p>The sitter has been identified by Antoine Salomon (letter of 12 September 1979) as Mme Léopold Marchand - then Mme Alfred Savoir. Both her husbands were playwrights and she moved in the same sphere as the Hessels. Known as Miche, her charm and sweet nature greatly appealed to Vuillard, who included her in several of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>; she appears for instance, in middle age, seated on the left of his picture 'The Visit' of 1931 in the National Gallery, Washington, with Mme Hessel on the right. She died during the Second World War.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.758, reproduced p.758</p>

Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults couch domestic drinking eating and drinking furnishings individuals: female interiors kitchen leisure and pastimes living room Marchand, Miche named individuals objects people portraits Savoir, Miche sitting tea set woman