Sunday, December 13, 2020

The simple truth - still-lifes by Félix Vallotton


Poivrons rouges sur table ronde, laquée blanc, 1915.
Dame-Jeanne et caisse, 1925.
Chrysanthèmes et feuillage d'automne, 1922.
Le Jambon, 1918.
Soucis et mandarines, 1924.
Nature morte avec cruche en terre cuite, 1923.
La Bibliotheque, 1921.
Tulipes et statuette de Maillol, 1913.
La viande et les œufs, 1918.
Cruche et hortensia, 1921.
Le Panier des cerises, 1921.
Nature morte avec des fleurs, 1925.
Nature morte aux pommes, 1910.
Corbeille de mandarines et bananes, 1923.
 Nature morte avec un journal, 1923.
Nature morte à l'assiette bleue, 1922.
Entrecôte, 1914.
Fleurs blanches dans un vase décoré, 1906.
Oignons et soupière, 1925.


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Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865, Lausanne - December 29, 1925, Neuilly-sur-Seine), Swiss-born French painter and printmaker. He first gained recognition for his woodcuts, but was predominantly active as a painter after the turn of the century. He produced portraits, landscapes, nudes, still-lifes, and other subjects, all painted with a detached realism.

He was associated with Les Nabis, a group of young French artists that was active during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Its members included Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, and the group is seen as an important link between Impressionism and the early movements of modernism.

Wikipedia has quite an extensive entry on the artist and his work, so I'll leave the detail to them this time.



5 comments:

  1. Oh, I love these. Simple, well-observed with a dash of magic.

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  2. Very beautiful post Stephen, thank you!

    (I put a link to your blog in my blogroll, tell me if you agree or not please :)

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  3. Félix Vallotton was a fascinating still life painter, particularly with the vases, fruits, flowers, glasses, table clothes etc. I didn't like the lumps of meat which looked vulgar to me, but that is my problem, not Vallotton's.

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    1. Yes, even though beautifully painted, I don't think I'd want a painting of a big chunk of meat hanging on my wall! ; )

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