Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

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Nov 4 · 7 min read
Félix Vallotton, Self-Portrait, 1897 (age 32). Oil on Board
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Seeing an array of Félix Vallotton’s work — as we did on opening day of the exhibition Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet — made us wonder why we were not more familiar with him. In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, he chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation.

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