Intérieur

Intérieur from 1904, at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, was acquired as part of the Russian passion for French Post-Impressionist painting that made Moscow and Saint Petersburg major holdings of this material. Vuillard's interiors of the early 1900s represent a slight shift from his most radically flattened early style toward a somewhat more atmospheric approach — not abandoning the chromatic density but allowing slightly more legible space. The Pushkin's strong collection of Bonnard and Vuillard, assembled alongside its Impressionist holdings, makes it essential to understanding how Post-Impressionist domestic painting was received and valued outside France.

The 1904 work shows Vuillard moderating somewhat the extreme compression of his early style — there is more atmospheric recession in the space, though the chromatic patterning of surfaces remains intense. The handling is richer and more varied in texture than the early panels.