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| 1892 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 55.2 x 45.7 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.
Valtat’s
early work, generally landscapes and street scenes, used the light touch of
Impressionism and the coloured dots of Pointillism along with an intense,
bright palette, as in Péniches (Barges) (1892).
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| 1892 Barges oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm Private Collection |
Later
in life, while suffering from tuberculosis, he spent several autumns and
winters on the Mediterranean, where he intensified his use of colour and began
to express more Fauvist tendencies, particularly in his seascapes. However, he
never fully adopted the extreme boldness of colour and form that characterises
the work of the Fauve group.
Born
August 8, 1869 in Dieppe, France, Valtat studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in
Paris and at the Académie Julian. His fellow students and contemporaries included Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnar, and Édouard Vuillard, though Valtat remained separate from the Synthesist
movement by which these three were influenced. He continued to paint until
1948, when he lost his sight due to glaucoma. Valtat died on January 2, 1952 in
Paris.
This
is part 1 of a 4-part post on the works of Louis Valtat:
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| 1890-92c On the Beach oil on canvas 57.2 x 80.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890c Street in Paris in the Snow oil on paper on cradled panel 28.5 x 45.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890c The House and Garden at Bernay oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890c The Studio / Nude in the Studio oil on canvas 171.5 x 221 cm Private Collection |
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| 1892c Unloading Coal at Rouen oil on burlap 54 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 House and Three Master oil on canvas 46.3 x 55 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 On the Boulevard oil on canvas 218.4 x 168.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 The Flower Garden oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 The Orchard oil on paper laid down on canvas 47.3 x 62.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 The White Mouse oil on canvas 81.2 x 100.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893c Landscape oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893c The Seine at Bercy oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Apple Trees oil on cardboard 65 x 81 xm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Nude in the Garden tempera on canvas 44 x 55 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Spanish Landscape oil on canvas 54 x 64.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Spanish Landscape oil on canvas 64.8 x 81.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Spanish Landscape oil on panel 55 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894 Two Children oil on canvas 28.5 x 35.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894c Bernay, la Place de l'Abbatiale oil on canvas 54 x 65.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1894c Woman at a Fountain oil on canvas 62.2 x 81.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895 At the Cabaret pastel on paper Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI |
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| 1895 At the Table woodcut 27.5 x 20.9 cm ( woodcut ) 33.3 x 24.7 cm ( sheet ) © 2017 Louis Valtat / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1895 Chez Maxim's tempera on panel 80 x 60 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895 Figures by the River oil on paper laid down on canvas 43.2 x 49.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895 On the Boat Bus, Rouen oil on canvas 54 x 61 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895 On the River oil on paper laid down on canvas 51 x 69 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895 Personnages au Bord de la Rivière oil on canvas 53.9 x 65.7 cm |
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| 1895 Water Carriers by a Country House oil on canvas 80 x 99.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Monsieur Victor Valtat, the Artist's Father oil on canvas 34.3 x 26.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Nude on a Green Armchair pastel on paper laid down on canvas 61.9 x 38.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c The Madeleine-Bastille Omnibus oil on canvas 130 x 152 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 1895c The Reapers oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Two Children on a Plaza oil on canvas 81.3 x 100.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Two Vases of Flowers oil on canvas 81.3 x 66 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Two Young Women Fixing Their Hair oil on canvas 82 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1895c Woman in an Armchair oil on canvas 81.6 x 65.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1896 A Tree in a Garden oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1896 Boats at Arachon tempera on panel 46 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1896 Boulevard with a Pink Wall oil on board on cradled panel 52 x 67.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1896 Brown Sails oil on canvas 31 x 36 cm Musée d'Orsay Paris © ADAGP - photo musée d'Orsay / rmn |
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| 1896 The Banyuls Lighthouse oil on canvas 27.2 x 22.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1896 Woman at the Cabaret oil on canvas 136 x 191 cm Musée 'Orsay Paris © ADAGP - photo musée d'Orsay / rmn |
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