Félix Vallotton
The Purple Hat, c. 1907
Oil on canvas
81 x 65,5 cm.
Private collection
In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux.
Félix Vallotton
JEUNE FEMME DRAPÉE DANS UNE ÉCHARPE VERTE, 1924
Oil on canvas
80x65 cm
Private collection
Félix Vallotton
TORSO DE FEMME NUE, DE FACE, 1907 TORSO OF A NUDE, c. 1907
Oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
Private collection
The sitter is presumably the wife of the Russian collector Georges Hasen, whom Félix Vallotton captured in numerous of his nudes. The present painting can be considered one of the best works of this genre. The backdrop to the scenery is the artist's studio, where most of the nudes were created from sketches.
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FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)
Nu à plat ventre sur le sable, c. 1924
Oil on canvas
33 x 55 cm
Private collection
Sold for CHF 396,500 in Sep 2018
Félix Edouard Vallotton
Nude, c. 1911
Oil on canvas
88.9 × 116.9 cm (35 × 46 in.)
The Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois)
In order to show the heat that is bearing down upon this young woman, Félix Vallotton used the pointillism technique, a method of painting that enabled him to depict the vibration of air that has been warmed by the sun. This establishes a contrast to the evenly-painted sand upon which the girl is lying.
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Félix Vallotton (1865–1925)
Nu allongé sur un tapis rouge, c. 1909
Oil on canvas
height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 100 cm (39.3 in)
Musée du Petit Palais
Félix Édouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style.
His earliest paintings were influenced by Holbein and Ingres. He developed a simpler style during his association with Les Nabis during the 1890s, and produced woodcuts which brought him international recognition. Characterized by broad masses of black and white with minimal detail, they include street scenes, bathers, portraits, and a series of ten interiors titled Intimités (Intimacies) that portray charged domestic encounters between men and women. He produced few prints after 1901, and concentrated instead on painting. His later paintings include highly finished portraits and nudes, and landscapes painted from memory.
He was also active as a writer. He published art criticism during the 1890s, and his novel La Vie meurtrière (The Murderous Life) was published posthumously.
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