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  • Exhibition History
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Inscription

lower right: F.VALLOTTON.17

Provenance

The artist [1865-1925]; his estate: Pierre-René Vallotton, Richmond and Alfred Vallotton, Paris; (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne) until at least 1985; private collection, Lausanne; (Mr. and Mrs. Paul Josefowitz, London);[1] purchased 18 May 1990 by NGA.

[1] Early provenance per Marina Ducrey, Félix Vallotton 1865-1925. L'oeuvre peint, 3 vols., Lausanne, 2005, III: no. 1080. It is probable that the Lausanne private collection and Mr. and Mrs. Josefowitz are one and the same.

Exhibition History
1970
Félix Vallotton, peintre et écrivain, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1970 [no catalogue].
1983
Felix Vallotton, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1983, no. 14, repro.
1985
Felix Vallotton, Huiles, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, 1985, no. 7, repro.
1991
Felix Vallotton: A Retrospective, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, travelling exhibition, 1991-1993, pl. 246, repro. 204, 302, as The Church of Souain in Silhouette.
1994
A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit - Bilder des Ersten Weltkrieges), Altes Museum, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1994, pl. 200, repro., as Church at Souain, ruins and ruble.
Bibliography
1936
Hahnloser-Bühler, Hedy. Félix Vallotton et ses amis. Paris, 1936:no. 1115
1985
Busch, Günter, et al. Vallotton. Lausanne, 1985:no. 158, repro.
2005
Ducrey, Marina. Félix Vallotton 1865-1925. L'oeuvre peint. 3 vols., Lausanne, 2005:III:no. 1180, repro.