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Two pale-skinned women are shown from the waist up behind a counter in an interior space in this nearly square painting. Loosely painted patterns on their clothing, bunches of flowers to our right, and the background to our left create a patchwork of claret red, ivory white, forest green, deep burgundy, and golden yellow. The woman standing closer to us takes up the left half of the composition. She faces our right in profile. Her features are painted with blended strokes so are indistinct. Her auburn hair is pulled up, and her high-collared, garnet-red and white striped shirt has long sleeves with puffy shoulders. She looks down at a red vase of flowers she holds at its base with the hand we see. The second woman stands at the first woman’s far shoulder. She turns her face slightly toward us, and also gazes down at the flowers on the counter. Her high-necked shirt is ruby red. Four wine-red vases in front of the women are filled with dark maroon-red or cream-white flowers, perhaps chrysanthemums, forest-green and tan greenery, and one vivid, tomato-red blossom. A gap between two vases could be another vase either patterned with white and celestial blue or reflecting those colors. A dark red and two white blossoms are in the lower left corner of the composition, next to a long, lidded box with light brown sides and a navy-blue top. A loosely painted form in the upper left corner, over the first woman’s shoulder, could be a figurine or another person. Though the details are vague, there is a suggestion of a face turned leftward. She has blond hair and wears a long, loose marigold-yellow garment. The right arm, to our left, could be raised to shoulder height, and she stands before a crimson background, maybe a curtain. The rest of the background is painted with dots and touches of apple red, maroon, orange, sage green, dark brown, and butter yellow. The artist signed the canvas near the lower right corner, “E. Vuillard.”

Edouard Vuillard

Woman in a Striped Dress, 1895

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 103-C

爱德华·维亚尔属于纳比画派，这一派别大约形成于 1890 年，是一个具有神秘色彩的年轻艺术家群体。“纳比”一词来源于希伯来语中的“先知”。纳比派艺术家摒弃了印象派的理念，他们认为直白地表现客观的自然世界既没有思想深度，也不具有艺术性。这幅《穿条纹洋装的女人》是维亚尔在 1895 年为萨迪·纳坦森和他的妻子米希亚·勾德比斯卡创作的五幅作品之一。维亚尔非常欣赏米希亚，画中正在整理花束，若有所思地女性就是拥有一头红发的米希亚。    

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