The Wind

1910

Félix Vallotton

Artist, Swiss, 1865 - 1925

Tall trunks and the canopies trees sweep to our left in a stiff wind in this horizontal landscape painting. The bottom half of the canvas is packed solid with leafy trees. Several spindly trunks shoot high above the canopy against a sky mottled with a sheet of pale gray clouds. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “F. VALLOTTON. 10.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 89.2 × 116.2 cm (35 1/8 × 45 3/4 in.)
    framed: 100.9 × 127.6 × 6.35 cm (39 3/4 × 50 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.41

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune,Lausanne); acquired 1915 by Richard Bühler [1879-1967], Winterthur Switzerland; 1939 to (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne);[1] sold 1 November 1967 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] Early provenance per Marina Ducrey, Félix Vallotton 1865-1925. L'oeuvre peint, 3 vols., Lausanne, 2005, III: no. 777.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • Félix Vallotton, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1957, no. 42, repro.

1965

  • Félix Vallotton, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1965, no. 157.

1966

  • Vallotton, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1966, no. 71, as Honfleur, Le Vent.

1979

  • 19th and 20th Century French Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1979 (long term exhibition), checklist no. 77

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist

1991

  • Felix Vallotton: A Retrospective, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, travelling exhibition, 1991-1993, pl. 230, repro. 190, 301.

2007

  • Félix Vallotton. Idyll on the Edge., Kunsthaus Zürich; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2007-2008, no. 70, repro.

Bibliography

2005

  • Ducrey, Marina. Félix Vallotton 1865-1925. L'oeuvre peint. 3 vols., Lausanne, 2005:III:no. 777, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: F.VALLOTTON.10

Wikidata ID

Q20191527

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