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One of my most favorite paintings.
Garden at Vaucresson
Edouard Vuillard French
1920; reworked 1926, 1935, 1936

• This painting was begun in 1920 at Vaucresson, a residential suburb west of Paris, where Vuillard’s friends Lucy and Josse (Jos) Hessel had recently purchased the house depicted in the background. Jos, a partner in the art firm of Bernheim-Jeune, had become Vuillard's dealer in 1912. His wife was one of Vuillard's great loves; their relationship spanned more than three decades, until the artist's death in 1940.
• The woman in a house dress standing at right is Lucy's cousin Marcelle Aron. Hidden in plain sight, Lucy kneels across from her, at left, camouflaged by one of the large rosebushes that serve as a decorative screen in the foreground. (Only her hand is showing, reaching for a white rose.)