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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was once energetic on the flip of the century. even though he's top identified for his remarkable and skillfully composed Japanese-inspired woodblock prints, Vallotton used to be additionally a talented painter, developing works that arrestingly mixed technical perfection with emotional realism. This seminal textual content offers readers with a desirable evaluation of the profession of this innovative artist.
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In a letter to his parents in November 1889, he wrote of concluding an agreement with a publisher to do some engravings. In the early days, it was a matter of reproducing pictures by contemporary artists. The list for 1889 included copies of etchings by Rembrandt. ” It was not surprising, however, that Vallotton embarked on another new path in order to earn an adequate living. The list of works for 1891 saw the appearance of wood engravings, and in the following year they almost displaced the paintings.
More important were the contacts with Ernest Biéler, a noteworthy artist from Lausanne. Being some two years older than Félix, Biéler had been based in Paris for longer. He, too, had studied under Lefebvre at the Académie Julian and had trodden the same path on which Vallotton now embarked. Consequently, he felt for Vallotton and understood him, more than anyone else. In fact, it was he who asked his friend, Auguste de Molins, an artist who had exhibited with the Impressionists at their first exhibition in 1874, for letters of recommendation for Vallotton addressed to Renoir and Degas.
5 x 49 cm. Private collection. (pp. ” In a surprising picture, known under the title The Patient (La Malade, pp. 20-21) and described in his catalogue for 1892 as An interior. One girl lying down, and another entering with a pillow in her arms, Vallotton gave expression to his dream of bliss. This unsophisticated scene is reminiscent of the simple naturalism of the Swiss Albert Anker’s pictures, which were popular in Lausanne. Anker, however, was not as naïve as he seemed at first sight: in their own way, his set of scenes from daily life make up a picture presenting the ideal of a happy Switzerland.