Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton Biography
Félix Vallotton was born on December 28, 1865, in Lausanne, Switzerland, into a well-to-do middle-class family. At the age of seventeen, he came to Paris to enter the Académie Julian. He began his artistic career by painting portraits, one of which was exhibited at the 1885 semi-official Salon des Artistes Français, and then turned to interior scenes. It was during this period that Vallotton developed his own manner of painting: he worked with small, precise strokes, carefully rendering every detail and creating a smooth canvas surface. This is precisely why he is regarded as one of the precursors of the so-called Neue Sachlichkeit ("new objectivity") movement, which originated in the 1920s.
Félix Vallotton 38 Most Important Paintings and Artworks
- Bathing On A Summer Evening/Le Bain Au Soir D'Été.
1892-93. Oil on canvas. 97 x 131 cm. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland.
- The Waltz/La Valse.
1893. Oil on canvas. 60.5 x 50 cm. Private collection.
- The Manifistation/ La Manifestation.
1893. Woodcut. 20.3 x 32 cm. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France.
- The Third Gallery At The Theatre Du Chalet/Troisième Galerie Au Châtelet.
1894. Oil on cardbord glued on wood. 50 x 62 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
- In The Street: Woman With Muff. /Dans La Rue: Femme Au Manchon.
1895. Oil on cardboard. 38 x 17.5 cm. Private collection.
- Luxembourg Garden/Jardin Du Luxembourg.
1895. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73 cm. Private collection.
- Moonlight/Clair De Lune.
c.1895. Oil on canvas. 27 x 41 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
- Passers-By/Les Passants.
1895. Detrempe sur carton. 33.2 x 46 cm. Private collection.
- Street Scene/Scène De Rue.
1895. China ink, colored pencils and watercolor. 24 x 38 cm. Private collection.
- The Beautiful Sunday/Le Beau Dimanche.
1895. Illustration for Le Rire, April 13, 1895. 22.5 x 30.5 cm. China ink on paper. Private collection.
- Félix Fénéon Editing La Revue Blanche/Félix Fénéon À La Revue Blanche.
1896. Oil on cardboard. 52.5 x 65 cm. Private collection. . Read Note.
- Lady And Her Maid/La Maîtresse Et La Servante.
1896. Oil on cardboard. 52 x 66 cm. Private collection.
- Women At Their Toilet/Femmes À Leur Toilette.
1897. Oil on cardboard. 48 x 58 cm. Private collection.
- Naked Women Playing Checkers/Femmes Nues Jouant Aux Dames.
1897. Oil on wood. 25.5 x 52.5 cm. Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Misia At Her Dressing Table/Misia À Sa Coiffeuse.
1898. Tempera on cardboard. 35 x 27 cm. Private collection. . Read Note.
- Intimacy: Couple In Interior /Intimité: Couple Dans Un Intérieur.
1898. Tempera on cardboard. 35 x 57 cm. Private collection.
- The Visit/La Visite.
1899. Tempera on cardboard. 55.5 x 87 cm. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland.
- On The Beach/Sur La Plage.
1899. Oil on cardboard glued on wood. 42 x 48 cm. Private collection.
- Washerwomen On Etretat/Laveuses À Etretat.
1899. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood. 39 x 50.5 cm. Private collection.
- Interior: Red Room With Woman And Child/Intérieur: Chambre Rouge Avec...
1899. Oil on cardboard. 49.2 x 51.3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Félix Vallotton Bibliography
Felix Vallotton: The Nabi from Switzerland (Great Painters Series) by Natalia Brodaskaya. Parkstone Press, 1997.
Felix Vallotton by Sasha M. Newman. Abbeville Press, Inc., 1991.
Felix Vallotton by Jean-Paul Morel (Author). Editions Favre, 2002.
Gauguin and the Nabis: Prophets of Modernism by Arthur Ellridge. Terrail, 1995.
The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle by Claire Freches-Thory (Author), Antoine Terrasse (Author). Flammarion, 2003.
The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde by Patricia Eckert Boyer (Editor), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Elizabeth Prelinger. Rutgers University Press, 1988.
The Nabis and their period by Charles Chassé. Lund Humphries, 1969.
