Félix Vallotton Programme pour "Père" de Strindberg (Programme for Strindberg’s The Father), 1894 Félix Vallotton made his mark not only as a painter, but also as an illustrator, particularly in the decade from 1890 to 1900…
Édouard Vuillard Programme pour le théâtre de l'Œuvre (Programme for the Théâtre de l'Œuvre), 1894 The avant-garde Parisian Théâtre de l’Œuvre was established in 1893 by the actor Lugné-Poe, the writer Camille Mauclair and the artist Édouard Vuillard. All three…
On display Félix Vallotton Stéphane Mallarmé, 1896 Around the turn of the twentieth century, Félix Vallotton produced some four hundred portraits of well-known subjects, mostly his contemporaries. The small Indian ink sketches…
Félix Vallotton Femme nue lutinant un Silène (Nude woman fondling a Silenus), 1907 As Félix Vallotton left his Nabi period behind, he began to move on to larger formats, producing a series of canvases featuring bathing women, allegories,…
Félix Vallotton Quatre torses (Four Torsos), 1916 Félix Vallotton was too old to join up in the First World War, choosing instead to explore a burning question for all artists of the…
Félix Vallotton Les Charbonnières, 1889 Félix Vallotton, who had been living in Paris since 1882, underwent a crisis in the late 1880s that saw him sink into depression. He faced…
Félix Vallotton Le palmier, Cagnes (Palm Tree, Cagnes), 1920 Félix Vallotton arrived in Cagnes on November 24, 1920. This painting, dating from early December, is one of the first he completed during his visit.…
On display Félix Vallotton La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915 This painting of a woman choosing a book from a shelf is a far cry from Félix Vallotton's Nabi interiors featuring the everyday triumphs and…
Félix Vallotton Bex, 1896 Félix Vallotton began spending most of the year in Paris in the 1880s. He would return to Switzerland in the summer months, bringing small pieces…
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Vue du lac Léman et des Alpes (View of Lake Geneva and the Alps), 1879 The renowned architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc painted this watercolour the year he died, while he was working on the renovation of Lausanne cathedral. The lower half…
Édouard Vuillard Madame Hessel et Lulu à la porte-fenêtre (Madame Hessel and Lulu by the French Window), circa 1932 This painting is one of Édouard Vuillard's late works. It is an example of the intimate works of the 1930s painted for the artist's own…
Félix Vallotton Le Pharo, Marseille, 1901 Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle visited Marseilles in the latter half of January 1901, on their way to Cannes to see their friend, the…
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) Paysans au musée or À l'exposition (Peasants at the Museum or At the Axhibition), 1867 Marc Vautier, a native of the Vaud, had been a successful artist in Düsseldorf for fifteen years when he painted this work. He specialised in…
Maurice de Vlaminck La Neige à Auvers (Snow in Auvers), circa 1924 Maurice de Vlaminck caused a scandal at the 1905 autumn salon in Paris with Henri Matisse and André Derain for canvases that combined colours at…
Félix Vallotton Nature morte aux glaïeuls (Still Life With Gladioli), 1924 ‘I am deep in a still life, the ordinary expedient of bad days, but by applying myself I manage to save the day. [...] I…
Félix Vallotton Les saules (Willows), 1900 Having spent the best part of three years working on his engraving skills and developing the Nabi aesthetic in nudes and genre scenes, Félix Vallotton's…
On display Félix Vallotton Femme nue, rideau vert (Nude Woman, Green Curtain), 1897 Félix Vallotton's sensually posed Venus pudica, loosely clasping the veil that tantalisingly half-hides her lower body, is a solemn, cold, distant beauty. Her flesh, which…
Édouard Vuillard Madame Vuillard cousant, rue Truffaut (Madame Vuillard Sewing, Rue Truffaut), c. 1900 Painted on a small piece of cardboard, this work dates from towards the end of Édouard Vuillard’s Nabi period and shows the living room of…
Félix Vallotton Vases de Honfleur (Mudflats at Honfleur), 1917 Félix Vallotton's visits to Honfleur were seminal in the development of his composite landscapes. He also conducted further research in his Normandy studio, exploring ways…
Félix Vallotton Les Affiches lumineuses. Dessin pour Les Rassemblements (Brightly Lit Posters. Drawing for Les Rassemblements), 1895/1902-1903 In the autumn of 1895, Félix Vallotton produced a series of thirty drawings for Badauderies parisiennes. Les Rassemblements. Physiologies de la rue (A Study of…
Félix Vallotton Les toits, rue Mérimée (Rooftops, rue Mérimée), vers 1903 In the spring of 1903, Félix Vallotton and his family moved into an elegant town house at 59, rue des Belles-Feuilles, in the chic 16th…
Félix Vallotton Le grand nuage (The Great Cloud), 1900 Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle spent the summer of 1900 in the chateau of La Naz in Romanel, overlooking Lausanne. The views over the…
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) Étude pour le Retour des jeunes mariés (Study for the Homecoming), 1881 In 1898, the Swiss-born artist Benjamin Vautier died in Düsseldorf, where he had spent most of his career. He was feted by the media as…
Félix Vallotton La paresse (Idleness), 1896 By 1900, Vallotton was renowned in Paris as one of the major protagonists in the revival of printmaking. He had begun making drypoint works and…
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) Une vente aux enchères dans l'Oberland bernois (An Auction in the Bernese Oberland), 1856 The shift from a predominantly rural to an industrial society from the 1830s on led to the emergence of an ethnographic school of painting whose…
Félix Vallotton Le château Gaillard (Château Gaillard), 1924 In 1924, when travelling to Honfleur, where he rented a villa for the summer in 1909, Félix Vallotton stopped at Les Andelys, a village on…
Félix Vallotton Le port de Rouen (The Port of Rouen), 1901 At the turn of the twentieth century, Rouen was one of France’s busiest river ports and a popular destination for painters. Camille Pissarro visited its…
