By Félix Vallotton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Amateurs d'Estampes
Woodcut, 1892
Initialed in the plate lower left
Titled below image: "Gravure originale sur bois par F. Vallotton"
Reference: Valloton and Goerg 107c, with the purple address stamp upper right center (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Aging to sheet
One spot of printers ink outside of the image in the upper margin
Block size: 7 3/8 x 10 inches
Sheet size: 10 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches
Condition: Very good, aging (yellowing) to the paper
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1881-1917), noted Parisian art dealer and print publisher
By decent
Vallotton was a noted member of the Nabi, highly regarded for his paintings and original woodcuts. His works are in most major museums.
Thank you for your interest in the Vallotton woodcut, Les Amateurs d’Estampes (Print Lovers).
It depicts print collectors admiring the new offerings in the window of the Sagot Gallery in Paris.
The woodcut is the second published version of the address card for Edmund Sagot the noted Paris art gallery with the change of address in lavender ink. It had moved and hence the change of address was necessary for publicity.
The woodcut was created in 1892. It is unsigned as all the address cards are. There are two size variants, this being the larger of the two. It is printed on a tan wove paper. It is in excellent original condition.
The provenance is from the Heirs of Edmund Sagot (1857-1917). by decent. The Sagot family was noted for selling posters, fine prints and original works of art. Edmund’s brother Clovis, was Picasso’s first dealer in Paris.
The image is documented in the Vallotton and Goerg catalog raisonne in entry 107c
Impressions of this image can be found in many museums including:
Bibliothèque nationale de France
De Young/Legion of Honor/Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art
National Gallery of Australia
Musee Des Beaux-Arts du Canada
Van Gogh Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Portland Art Museum
Kunst Museum, Holland
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Félix Vallotton, in full Félix Edouard Vallotton, (born December 28, 1865, Lausanne, Switzerland—died December 28, 1925, Paris, France), Swiss-born French graphic artist and painter known for his paintings of nudes and interiors and in particular for his distinctive woodcuts.
Vallotton was raised in a traditional bourgeois and Protestant household. After completing secondary school, he left Lausanne in 1882 for Paris to pursue art studies. Though he was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, he chose to attend the less traditional Académie Julian, where he studied with French painters Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger and enjoyed virtually free rein over his pursuits. He took the opportunity to study graphic arts—lithography and other methods of printmaking. He exhibited publicly for the first time in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français—the oil painting Portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, the subject of which was an American mathematician and neighbour of the artist. In 1889 Vallotton exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris as the representative from Switzerland and won honourable mention for the same portrait.
"The Starry Night," oil on canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. In the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 73.7 x 92.1 cm. (Post-impressionism)
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While at the Académie Julian, Vallotton had become friends with and protégè of artist and printmaker Charles Maurin, who introduced him to the art of woodcut. Maurin also introduced Vallotton to the haunts of Montmartre—the cafés and cabarets such as Le Chat Noir, where he met artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Vallotton moved to live near Montparnasse, the city’s slumlike breeding ground for artists, poets, musicians, and writers, as he drew closer to Toulouse-Lautrec and the bohemian culture of Paris. To make ends meet, he began selling prints...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Félix Vallotton Art