Felix Vallotton: 168 Paintings and Drawings

By Maria Tsaneva

F lix Vallotton was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with group Les Nabis. By the end of his life he had completed over 1700 paintings and about 200 prints, in addition to hundreds of drawings and several sculptures. His earliest paintings, chiefly portraits, are firmly rooted in the academic tradition. He was influenced by post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and especially by the Japanese woodcut. During the 1890s, when Vallotton was closely allied with the avant-garde, his paintings reflected the style of his woodcuts, with flat areas of color, hard edges, and simplification of detail. His subjects included genre scenes, portraits and nudes. Vallotton's paintings of the post-Nabi period found admirers, and were generally respected for their truthfulness and their technical qualities, but the severity of his style was frequently criticized, and has a further parallel in the work of Edward Hopper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506181821
• ISBN13: 9781506181820
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Black and white printing only

Unfortunately except for the cover this book is printed entirely in black and white. I can see no where in the listing where this lack of color printing is announced. While Vallotton is famous for his stark black and white woodblock prints, I had really wanted a book that showed his use of color during his long career as a painter. The actual text is a four page foreword of large text and the main body of the book is made up of images of paintings and drawings. I just don’t really see the point of such a book. It’s not really doing the paintings any justice and the text is too brief to give any deep insight into the artist’s career.