A post-impressionist French painter who was one of the revolutionaries of the Nabis movement that paved the way for abstraction, Edouard Vuillard had a long career spanning the late 19th and nearly half of the 20th Century. His work, often with luminosity, became increasingly abstract and colorful, which some art historians link to Henri Matisse and the Fauves. Among his subjects were figures in interiors, landscapes, portraiture and large-scale decorations, and methods included drawings, graphics, folding screen painting, theatre-program designs, ceramics and photographs as well as oil painting.

Of his five panel screen, Place Vintimille, he completed in 1911 and that is an elaborate depiction o...