The Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t exactly given its best gallery space to the exhibition “Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet.” The show, which includes about 80 works by the Swiss-born painter, ...

In one of Félix Vallotton’s paintings, a man and a woman in formal clothes embrace in a cozy room with striped wallpaper. Vallotton’s title for this seemingly tender scene? “The Lie.” The tensions and ...

A sudden downpour sends people scurrying for cover, hats are blown off by gusts of wind and a street is filled with the crow-like silhouettes of demonstrators scurrying towards the horizon. In its ...

Félix Vallotton, “The Lie” (1897), oil on artist’s board, 9 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, unless otherwise stated) Belle Époque-era Paris is often remembered ...

Street Scene, 1895 by Félix Vallotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 Vallotton’s sensibility therefore straddled two instincts: the desire to honestly ...

Félix Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to a middle-class family. At the age of seventeen he moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. He began ...

The Royal Academy has released the catalogue of their exhibit of the works of Félix Vallotton. The exhibit opened in London, then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, where it closed just ...

Pont-Aven artists influenced by the movement feature heavily in Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship, which includes works from Gauguin, Felix ...

THE WORK OF SWISS painter Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) is less familiar than it merits, probably because his paintings and prints are seldom on show. The Kunsthaus Zurich holds about 25 Vallotton ...

After watching Félix Vallotton at work, Gertrude Stein memorably compared his painting process to “pulling down a curtain”. Vallotton, a Swiss artist, would begin at the top of the canvas, painting ...

In contrast to the comedy of the streets, life indoors is fraught with tension. In Intimacies the lies, deceits and obfuscations of married life are translated into terse little vignettes, which tell ...