French 1865-1925 Felix Vallotton Gallery Swiss woodcut artist and painter. Associated with the Nabis, he worked in Paris. Vallotton rejuvenated the woodcut medium as a creative technique. His boldly cut designs, conceived as arrangements in black and white, depict Parisian society with wit and intelligence. A painting, Swiss Landscape, is in the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London,  Related Paintings of Felix Vallotton :. | Reading Abandoned | Landscape with Trees (nn03) | Bathing on a Summer Evening (mk19) | Nature morte aux pommes | Sandbanks on the Loire (mk09) |
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