Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with Fondation Felix Vallotton, Lausanne. Generously illustrated throughout with the finest exemplars of the artist’s paintings and prints, this book accompanies a new presentation of Vallotton’s oeuvre that aims to re-evaluate his output and legacy, and includes works never seen in public before.

Texts by leading authorities look at Vallotton’s life, work and reception. The artist exhibited with the Nabis for the first time at the Salon des Indpendants in 1893, where he caused a sensation with The Bath, Summer Evening. Although he produced some of his most important work in Paris in the 1890s, his original and innovative approach persisted throughout his career. Closely associated with Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, and a fellow member of the avant-garde group Les Nabis, Vallotton has nonetheless sometimes been overshadowed by his more famous contemporaries. The Swiss artist Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) was born in Lausanne, but spent much of his working life in France. He developed a simpler style during his association with Les Nabis during the 1890s, and produced woodcuts which brought him international recognition. His earliest paintings were influenced by Holbein and Ingres. Published to accompany exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 30 June – 29 September 2019, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29 October 2019 – 26 January 2020. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style. Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet quantity Add to cartĪn important study of the work of Felix Vallotton, a prominent member of Les Nabis and a contemporary of Bonnard and Vuillard.

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