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Art reviews: Vuillard: Through a glass, darkly: Gallic genius unveils twilight world of home truths
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VUILLARD
The Royal Academy, London
WALKING into the Vuillard exhibition is a Proustian experience.
Beneath crepuscular lighting, walls the colour of cafe au lait
conspire with the work to transport you to the France of popular
imagination. That slightly shabby, petit-bourgeois northern France of
cafes, lace tablecloths, Gauloises, sensible frocks and brown
wallpaper. This is Vuillard's universe, and like Proust's it is a
curiously comforting place. But that is the secret of Vuillard's
genius (and this show is evidence that he possessed nothing less).
For within that cosy comfort zone lies a ...
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