Edouard Vuillard : "Theodore Duret" (1912) — Giclee Fine Art Print

"Théodore Duret," by Édouard Vuillard (1912) Available Formats • 9" x 12" (Image: 7.5" x 9.5") • 12" x 16" (Image: 10" x 12.69") • 16" x 20" (Image: 13" x 16.5") • 20" x 24" (Image: 15.75" x 20") • 24" x 30" (Image: 19" x 24.13") Archival Inkjet on Matte Finish Fine Art Paper About the Artwork A member of the French avant-garde group Les Nabis ("The Prophets"), Édouard Vuillard challenged the traditionally held belief that art should attempt to recreate nature. However skilled the artist, a painting could only ever be, as his colleague Maurice Denis put it, "a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order,"—but it needn't pretend to be anything else. Rather, Vuillard downplayed naturalistic detail in order to emphasize the aesthetic properties of line, color and form; bringing these to the fore in a manner that not only rendered his work beautiful in a strictly abstract sense, but also expressed his feelings toward the subject. Whereas the academic realists of the era were amply equipped to reproduce what they saw, Vuillard and the Nabis were better enabling artists to communicate how they saw. Théodore Duret was a French journalist, author and art critic who is best-known for his support of the Impressionist movement. His portrait had already been painted by the likes of Édouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler when Vuillard received this commission in 1912. The artist posed him in his study, enclosed by an overabundance of rectangles; books, papers, paintings and architecture which themselves form larger rectangles, expressive of Duret's highly structured intellect. The small cat on his knee, meanwhile, intimates that if Duret was serious, he was also kind. Fine Art Quality The Ibis’s giclée process uses archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper to achieve crisp detail and rich, lasting color. Unlike posters, they will not yellow with time, but will maintain their original quality for as long as you own them. Happiness Guarantee All of The Ibis's prints come with a 100% happiness guarantee. If you are disappointed in your purchase for any reason, you are welcome to return it for a full refund.