Monday, 4 September 2017

Louis Valtat - part 3

1900c Self-Portrait
oil on canvas 167.8 x 58.5 cm
 Private Collection

Louis Valtat (1869 – 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves  ("the wild beasts," so named for their wild use of colour), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d’Automme. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 and 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 4-part post on the works of Louis Valtat:



1900c Skaters in Winter
oil on canvas 81.3 x 99.7 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

1900c The Port
oil on canvas 54 x 65.1 cm
Private Collection

1900c Woman at the Piano ( Suzanne Valtat and Her Nephew Edouard Doubrère )
oil on board 76 x 106 cm
Private Collection

1901 Farm in Vosges
oil on canvas 55.1 x 46.1 cm

1901 Fruit on a Stool
oil on canvas 59.7 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

1901 Landscape in Normandy
oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.4 cm
Private Collection

1901 Madame Valtat in the Garden at Anthéor
oil on canvas 130 x 162.5 cm
Private Collection

1901 The Red Cape, Aguay
oil on canvas 65.8 x 81.4 cm
Private Collection

1901 Vase of Carnations and Minisas
oil on board on cradled panel 52 x 43 cm
Private Collection

1901 Vase of Chrysanthemums
oil on canvas 44 x 36 cm
Private Collection

1901 Woman on a Sofa
oil on board 57.8 x 75.9 cm
Private Collection

1902 Fisherwomen
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection

1902 Italian Landscape
oil on panel 34 x 41.5 cm
Private Collection

1902 Italian Landscape, Cypresses
oil on panel 34 x 42 cm
Private Collection

1902 Landscape of the Midi
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1902 Lemon and Mandarins
oil on paper laid down on board 20.4 x 26.7 cm
Private Collection

1902 Madame Valtat
oil on board 52 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

1902 Portrait of a Young Woman
oil on burlap 59.9 x 51 cm
Private Collection

1902 Still Life with Eggplant
oil on paper laid down on board 46.3 x 61.1 cm
Private Collection

1902 Still Life with Melons
oil on panel 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection

1902 The Gondolas of Venice
oil on cardboard 33 x 41 cm
Private Collection

1902 The Red Kerchief
oil on canvas 38.1 x 46.2 cm
Private Collection

1902 The Rocks
oil on cardboard 81 x 100 cm
Private Collection

1902 Woman on the Seashore
oil on canvas 81 x 100.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1902 Woman Wearing a Fox Stole
oil on canvas 100.4 x 80.7 cm
Private Collection

1902c By the Sea
65.5 x 81.2 cm
Private Collection

1902c Strawberries
oil on panel 27 x 35 cm
Private Collection

1902c Woman at the Moulin Rouge
oil on paper laid down on canvas 45.9 x 55.2 cm
Private Collection

1903 Woman in an Armchair
oil on canvas 71 x 93.8 cm
Private Collection

1903 Woman with a Cat
oil on canvas 94 x 73.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1903c A Walk by the Sea
oil on canvas 54.1 x 65.2 cm

1904 La Corbeille
oil on paper laid down on canvas 60 x 45 cm

1904 Naked Woman
oil on canvas
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Photo © Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Avshalom Avital

1904 Paysage du Midi
oil on canvas 60.3 x 73 cm

1905 Les Bohémiens
oil on canvas 81.2 x 101 cm

1905 Standing Woman
oil on canvas 54 x 65.1 cm

1905-06c Girls Playing with a Lion Cub
oil on canvas 81.5 x 100.5 cm
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1905c Large Bouquet in a Porcelain Vase
oil on canvas 73.1 x 60.2 cm

1905c Les Trois Coupes de Fruits
oil on paperboard 38.5 x 76.5 cm

1905c The Pendulum Clock and a Bouquet
oil on canvas 40 x 47 cm

1905c Vase of Flowers
oil on paper laid down on board 33.6 x 26.1 cm

1906 Bouquet of Flowers
oil on canvas 40.4 x 27 cm

1906-07c Antheor Bay
oil on canvas 74 x 93 cm
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Friday, 1 September 2017

Louis Valtat - part 2

1899 Self-Portrait with Cat
oil on canvas 55 x 53 cm
 Private Collection

Louis Valtat (1869 – 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves  ("the wild beasts," so named for their wild use of colour), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d’Automme. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

For more biographical notes, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 4-part post on the works of Louis Valtat: 



1896 Woman Sewing with a Dog
oil on board on cradled panel 54 x 45 cm
Private Collection

1896-97 Village by the Sea
oil on burlap 47 x 53 cm
Private Collection

1896c At Court
pastel on paper 64.5 x 49.6 cm
Private Collection

1896c At the Brasserie
pastel on paper 63.8 x 50.4 cm
Private Collection

1896c In the Lobby
pastel on paper
Private Collection

1896c Oyster Fisherwomen at Arcachon
oil on canvas 46. x 55.3 cm
Private Collection

1896c Village with Pink Houses
oil on canvas 33.5 x 33 cm

1897 Madame Valtat and Her Son Jean ( aka Morher and Child )
oil on burlap 46 x 54.6 cm
Private Collection

1897 Still Life
oil on card 24.7 x 34.9 cm
Private Collection

1897 The Red Tree
oil on canvas 44.5 x 53.3 cm
Private Collection

1897 Women Carrying Water
oil on canvas 130 x 162 cm
Private Collection

1897c At the Ball
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection

1897c Stylish Woman in the Woods
oil on canvas 21.6 x 16.5 cm
Private Collection

1898 ( Portrait of a Woman )
oil on canvas 40.6 x 33 cm
Private Collection

1898 A House under the Olive Trees in Aguay
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1898 Children's Games
73 x 91.8 cm
Private Collection

1898 Figures in a Wood
oil on cardboard 54 x 65 cm
Private Collection

1898 Promenade of Stylish Women
oil on canvas 81.3 x 100.3 cm
Private Collection

1898 The Port of Marseille
oil on canvas  54.6 x 65.4 cm
Private Collection

1898 The Seamstress
oil on canvas 24 x 33 cm
Private Collection

1898 Tulips and Narcissus
oil on cardboard
46 x 58 cm Private Collection

1898c Le Rastel d'Aguay
oil on canvas 45.7 x 61 cm
Private Collection

1898c The Bompart Family on the Red Rocks of Aguay in the Sun
oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm
Private Collection

1898c Young Women in the Garden
oil on canvas 65 x 80 cm
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1899 By the Sea at Aguay
oil on canvas 38 x 46.1 cm
Private Collection

1899 Flowers and Fruit
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection

1899 La Maison du Douanier
oil on canvas 65.6 x 81 cm

1899 Pines at Antheor
oil on canvas 65.4 x 81.6 cm
Private Collection

1899 The Boat
oil on canvas 81 x 101 cm
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1899 The Bompard Children, Aguay
oil on canvas 29 x 35.5 cm
Private Collection

1899-1900 Madame Valtat at Aguay
81 x 100 cm
Private Collection

1899c Mother and Child by the Sea
oil on canvas 25 x 33 cm
Private Collection

1899c Pines by the Sea, Antheor
oil on burlap 80 x 99 cm
Private Collection

1899c Young Woman and Her Model
oil on canvas 55 x 46.4 cm
Private Collection

1900 Houses in the Valley
oil on canvas 59.8 x 81.3 cm
Private Collection

1900 Mediterranean Landscape
oil on canvas 64.9 x 80.7 cm
Private Collection

1900 Red Rocks
oil on canvas 66 x 81.9 cm
Private Collection

1900 Violet Rocks
oil on canvas 65.5 x 81.5 cm
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1900 Woman with a Cat on Her Knee
oil on canvas 60.3 x 81.3 cm
Private Collection

1900 Woman with Grapes
oil on canvas 100.3 x 81.3 cm
Private Collection

1900c Buttercups
oil on paper laid down on board 45.7 x 58.4 cm
Private Collection

1900c Grandfather
oil on canvas 54.7 x 64.7 cm
Private Collection

1900c Paysage à la Falaise
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm

1900c Rocks
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France
© ADAGP - photo musée d'Orsay - rmn