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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

010. Tree at Gérardmer

Toward the end of the First World War, Vuillard was commissioned by the French government to record life at the front. He was sent to Gérardmer, a town in the Vosges area, near the German border. Harboring anti-military feelings, Vuillard had no interest in glorifying soldiers in battle and may have found relief in sketching this tree with a view of the town beyond.

Édouard Vuillard
1868–1940
Tree at Gérardmer, 1917
Graphite on page removed from a sketchbook
Gift of Mary Jo and Sheldon Weinig; 2019.284
© Édouard Vuillard / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York