Most of these images, if not all, were painted as paysage composé (composed landscapes), which Vallotton created in the studio, the original views altered by memory and imagination. Is that our sun or cosmic rays seen through the window of the SS Starship Enterprise? Félix Edouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. It’s all strange, captivating and otherworldly. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

The landscape oozes potential, as if something usually unseen has spread itself over the world when the people aren’t there and aren’t looking. Félix Edouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. Each is striking and intense, the coruscating, neon-tempered sun drenching everything in electrifying colours. Vallotton Dimensions 49.2 × 51.3 cm (19 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.) Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Īs if to prove his singularity, in the pre-war years Vallotton painted a lot of sunsets. Félix Edouard Vallotton Title The Red Room, Etretat Place France (Artists nationality) Date 1899 Medium Oil on artists board Inscriptions Inscribed lower right: F. At some point Valloton was dubbed “the singular Félix Vallotton” by Thadée Natanson, co-founder of the avant-garde cultural journal La Revue blanche, for which the artist created stylish woodcuts and graphics, often satirising the fashion-conscious Parisienne and the city’s street life. Les Nabis (Hebrew for The Prophets) were inspired by the decorative, Post-Impressionist, bold, flat style of Paul Gauguin and the simple clarity of Japanese woodblock prints. Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) : ‘Coucher de soleil bronze-violet’, 1911įélix Edouard Vallotton (Decem– December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with Pierre Bonnard, Jean-Édouard Vuillard and their Paris-based Les Nabis art group.

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