5/25/2023 0 Comments Felix vallotton prints![]() ![]() It is normally hidden in a Swiss bank.īorn to a strict Protestant family in Lausanne, Vallotton escaped to study art in Paris at the age of 16. ![]() One of the largest and most startling paintings at the Royal Academy is of the Bon Marché department store in Paris, famous from Zola’s novel The Ladies’ Delight, teeming with shoppers and brilliantly coloured goods – parasols, bottles, ribbons, pyramids of candy – all glowing in the gaslight. His works are scattered all over Europe, too often in private collections. Vallotton is a strange case in his own right very famous in his native Switzerland, hardly shown here. Is it the man or the woman (or both) telling the lies? So who is lying, and what is the lie? That she loves him for himself, not his money that he loves her too, that he really will marry her one day? That there is nobody else? The composition is divided – on one side the couple, on the other a pressure of insinuating scarlet decor – just as the picture divides its audience. ![]()
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