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Galerie Paul Vallotton

Swiss, est. 1913

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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.”
Félix Vallotton, The Wind, 1910, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.41

The Wind

Félix Vallotton · 1910 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.41

People walk or stand along a city street in front of buildings outlined in amethyst purple and hung with flags in this loosely painted, vertical composition. In the bottom quarter of the canvas, the people are painted with a few strokes of brown, pale blue, dark purple, or pale pink. Two four or five-story buildings fill most of the rest of the composition. Four flags flutter from flagpoles along a balcony or arcade on the central building. Two flags have blue crosses outlined in white against red backgrounds. One other is vertically striped with blue, white, and then red, and the fourth has a yellow cross on a blue background. The upper-story exterior walls of the buildings and the sky are mottled parchment white with a few touches of very pale pink or yellow. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “Raoul Dufy 1906.”
Raoul Dufy, July 14 in Le Havre, 1906, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.13

July 14 in Le Havre

Raoul Dufy · 1906 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.13

Félix Vallotton, The Church of Souain, 1917, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1990.30.1

The Church of Souain

Félix Vallotton · 1917 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1990.30.1