Édouard Vuillard was a French artist whose modestly sized paintings of interiors, married flat patterns with nuanced tonal relationships. Vuillard's work The Album (1895), exemplifies his ability to integrate decorative elements into a naturalistic space. “Nothing is important, save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one’s thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it,” the artist once said. Born on November 11, 1868 in Cuiseaux, France, he and his family moved to Paris when he was 10 years old. Vuillard grew up amidst the patterned fabrics of his mother’s dressmaking business, and went on to study under Jean-Léon Gé...