Felix vallotton femme fatale

Kees van Dongen, a Dutch painter who lived and worked in Paris, was famous for his sensuous and garish portraits of Parisian beauties.

Women are the victims in many of Vallotton's works, falling foul femme fatale.!

Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Vallotton’s varied and strange work proves that some artists defy easy definitions

Félix Vallotton, Self-portrait at the Age of Twenty (detail), 1885.

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquisition, 1896.

Femmes fatales such as the Widow Gras wore a variety of guises, ranging from everyday women to vampires and harpies.

Félix Édouard Vallotton, Femme jouant à la Patience, salle verte (Woman playing Patience, green room), Oil on canvas.

Women are the victims in many of Vallotton's works, falling foul femme fatale.

In this thesis I attempt to contextualize the fin-de-siècle printwork of Félix Vallotton () in terms of nineteenth-century ideologies of femininity.

Vintage poster classic Felix Vallotton: Woman with black hat in format available as a poster from 15 x 20 cm cm (smallest size) to 45 x 60 cm cm (largest.

The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London
30 June – 29 September 2019

by EMILY SPICER

A 20-year-old Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) looks out from his self-portrait with a pallid face and watery, red-rimmed eyes.

He is standing against a green-grey background, his chin down, misery etched on his fragile features. He is not scrutinising himself, it seems, but looking at us, the viewer, as though we have just walked into the room at a bad moment.

This is one of the images that greets us at the Royal Academy’s exhibition Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, a show that includes about 100 work