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Bathers, 1894

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Woodcut on paper
32.9×24.7 cm

Artists

  • Félix Vallotton

    (Lausanne 1865–1925 Paris)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The woodcut shows three women bathing in the sea in different postures and movements. On the upper edge, clouds and a bright sun define the wide horizon. The Swiss-born painter Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) moved to Paris at the age of 17 for his training to be an artist. He then went on to develop a novel artistic vocabulary in the circles of the Nabis artist group that built on the innovations brought by Impressionism. Under the influence of Japanese colored woodblock prints, Vallotton developed his figures with strong outlines and their surroundings with stark black and white contrasts. Innovative segmentations of the picture area and deliberately flat pictorial planes manifest his new understanding of space and subjective view of a popular subject of the fin-de-siècle.

AK, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Félix Vallotton
Title
Bathers
Date
1894
Art movement
Impressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions
32.9×24.7 cm
Signature
Monogrammed lower left on the plate: FV; signed and numbered lower right: FVallotton /58
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2119
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Félix Vallotton. Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié, hrsg. von Vallotton/Goerg, Genf 1972.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Vallotton/Goerg 1972: 62a
Keywords
woman/girlgroup portraitnudeswimmingbathingseasuncloudsstanding figure (fem.)

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994)

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woman/girlgroup portraitnudeswimmingbathingseasuncloudsstanding figure (fem.)