![]() ![]() A self-portrait at the age of twenty reveals a virtuosic, confident brush and much more - Vallotton is not interested in merely demonstrating his facility as a realist painter: he has a penetrating eye, a psychological depth, and a naturalism that owes much to northern Renaissance masters, especially Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein. Vallotton’s work unquestionably merits the renewed attention - his paintings possess a mysterious quality, narrative appeal, and attention to detail, as well as invoke a delicious sense of irony and wit.īorn in the Swiss town of Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1865, Vallotton displayed early an ability to draw from life and at sixteen he arrived in Paris to study painting at the Académie Julian. This makes the present exhibition all the more welcome, and fascinating. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently presenting the work of Félix Vallotton, an artist who has been largely neglected relative to his contemporaries, such as Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. ![]()
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