Girl Lifting Her Chemise (Fillette enlevant sa chemise)

1893

Félix Vallotton

Associated Names
Félix Vallotton

Artist, Swiss, 1865 - 1925

This image, in woodcut style, features two figures. The central figure is standing in water, depicted from the upper thighs up to the head, slightly bent forward with hands at the waist. The face shows basic features with short hair. The figure is wearing a sleeveless garment. Another figure is partially visible behind them. The background shows water with horizontal lines for waves, bordered by a dark expanse for sky or landscape, with stylized clouds. The artist's initials "FV" are in the bottom right corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    block: 4.2 x 5.8 cm (1 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.8 x 16.2 cm (5 1/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.106.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vallotton/Goerg 1972, no. 122

  • Series Title

    Les petites baigneuses (The Little Bathers): 6 [Vallotton/Goerg 117-126]

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1972

  • Vallotton, Maxime and Charles Goerg. Felix Vallotton, catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie; catalogue raisonne of the printed graphic work. Geneva: Les Editions de Bonvent, 1972.

Inscriptions

lower right in block: FV; lower right in graphite: fv; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 122 4

Wikidata ID

Q75423226

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