Félix Vallotton Ruisseau rouille et galets blancs (Rust Stream and White Pebbles), 1921 A painful case of sciatica that came on in 1916 prompted Félix Vallotton to decide in late autumn 1920 to spend the winter season in…
Félix Vallotton L’âge du papier. Dessin pour Le Cri de Paris (The Age of Paper. Drawing for Le Cri de Paris), 1898 Félix Vallotton rose to fame in the 1890s with his woodblock engravings and his illustrations for the rapidly growing press industry. Having moved from Switzerland…
Hendrik Voogd Campagne romaine sous un ciel d’orage (Roman Countryside under a Stormy Sky), c. 1800 Born in Amsterdam and trained at the city’s municipal art school, Hendrik Voogd spent all his career in Rome, where he settled at the age…
Félix Vallotton La chaste Suzanne (The Chaste Susanna), 1922 The act of seeing – from dazzlement to the risk of unhinging reason – is the guiding thread of the biblical story that Vallotton, now…
Bill Viola The Reflecting Pool (from The Reflecting Pool - Collected Work 1977–80), 1977–9 Viola is among those artists who have most powerfully influenced the development of video art since the late 1970s. Trained at Syracuse University in New…
On display Maria Helena Viera da Silva La ville suspendue (Hanging City), 1952 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a member of the Second Paris School, a loose group of post-war artists whose best-known members include Jean Bazaine,…
Félix Vallotton La chambre rouge (The Red Room), 1898 Félix Vallotton attained recognition in the 1890s with his woodcuts, and in particular with his Intimités series, ten scenes from the private life (intimité) of…
Félix Vallotton Autoportrait à l'âge de vingt ans(Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty), 1885 Félix Vallotton arrived in Paris from his native Lausanne at the age of sixteen and attended courses at the Académie Julian. He soon began looking…
