Marking 150 years since the artist's birth in 1868, this catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Edouard Vuillard's portrayal of his mother, Madame Marie Vuillard. Few other artists have so consistently featured their mother as motif. She was a particular focus during the 1890s, when Vuillard and his widowed mother operated parallel working practices in a series of modest Parisian apartments.
Their relationship provides the core theme of this catalogue, which explores Madame Vuillard as artistic and photographic muse as well as her son's everyday practical support at the core of an artistic corpus spanning 40 years.