Street Scene, 1895 by Félix Vallotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 Vallotton’s sensibility therefore straddled two instincts: the desire to honestly ...

After watching Félix Vallotton at work, Gertrude Stein memorably compared his painting process to “pulling down a curtain”. Vallotton, a Swiss artist, would begin at the top of the canvas, painting ...

Félix Vallotton, “The Lie” (1897), oil on artist’s board, 9 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, unless otherwise stated) Belle Époque-era Paris is often remembered ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t exactly given its best gallery space to the exhibition “Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet.” The show, which includes about 80 works by the Swiss-born painter, ...

In one of Félix Vallotton’s paintings, a man and a woman in formal clothes embrace in a cozy room with striped wallpaper. Vallotton’s title for this seemingly tender scene? “The Lie.” The tensions and ...

A sudden downpour sends people scurrying for cover, hats are blown off by gusts of wind and a street is filled with the crow-like silhouettes of demonstrators scurrying towards the horizon. In its ...

The Royal Academy has released the catalogue of their exhibit of the works of Félix Vallotton. The exhibit opened in London, then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, where it closed just ...

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Félix Vallotton: painter of disquiet,' Royal Academy of Arts, London, 30 June - 29 September 2019, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29 ...

This week, reviewing Félix Vallotton, whitesplaining history, a note to curators, women in the commercial art world, Judith Butler on anti-semitism, and more. His work has always presented a problem ...

In contrast to the comedy of the streets, life indoors is fraught with tension. In Intimacies the lies, deceits and obfuscations of married life are translated into terse little vignettes, which tell ...