It’s as though she could be dusted off, folded up, and put away just like the tablecloth. The woman not only melts into her lover, but the furniture. Vallotton brings the woman to the forefront with her red dress but the table and the chair in the background are red, too. There is also that very impactful shade of red. Is he the father? I love the way these figures are wrapped up around each other how their bodies were human, but also liquid. Vallotton created also this woodcut showing the same scene. I n a transfixing picture by the Swiss artist Flix Vallotton (1865-1925), a woman in a long red dress is tightly entwined with a black-clad man on a sofa. What is the lie about? Is one of them cheating? Felix Vallotton, The Lie, 1898, MoMA. But perhaps he is the one deceiving her as he glances away – maybe she is whispering words of trust and love, and he is thinking of his own deceit.
It’s easy to assume the woman is lying – the man appears to be listening while she whispers something in his ear. Felix Vallotton, The Lie, 1898, Baltimore Museum of Art I love imagining what Vallotton’s intent was with the figures in this image, especially given the title of Le Mensonge (The Lie). A man and woman, intimately entwined on a sofa. Vallotton finished his portrait in a matter of weeks and gave it to Gertrude Stein.Today’s painting, created by Felix Vallotton (one of my favorite artists), was painted in 1897 – but it could just as easily be a scene staged today. Félix Vallotton Swiss, 18651925 Follow 1. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. Vallotton's trenchant woodcuts of the 1890s solidified his reputation as a printmaker of the first rank while boldly messaging his left-wing politics.įor the first time ever, this exhibition displays Picasso's legendary portrait of Gertrude Stein, from The Met collection, alongside Vallotton's rendering of this formidable collector, which was painted a year later. Flix Edouard Vallotton (Decem December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with the collective known as Les Nabis. His lampooning wit, subversive satire, and wry humor is apparent everywhere in his artistic production. Today we recognize him as a distinctive artist of his generation. Witness to the radical aesthetics that gripped Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Vallotton developed his own singular voice. Félix Édouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis.
Swiss-born and Paris-educated, Vallotton (1865–1925) created lasting imagery of fin-de-siècle Paris.
Painted portraits, luminous landscapes, and interior narratives that pulse with psychological tension join the exhibition from more than two dozen lenders. Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet presents pivotal moments in the artist's career as a painter and printmaker.
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