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About this work

You see a busy room full of people in dark clothes, their faces blurred like smudged pencil. The walls are covered in patterned wallpaper, almost swallowing the figures. This print was made for a theater program in Paris. Vuillard worked fast—he drew directly on stone with greasy crayon, then printed it the same month the play opened. The smudges aren’t mistakes; they’re how lithography works, letting ink sit where the crayon touched. Look up more prints at The Museum of Modern Art.