French, 1869 – 1952
Provenance :
Private Collection, New York
This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Archives Louis Valtat and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonee in preparation.
Louis Valtat was a painter, printmaker, and stage designer. In 1888 he entered the Academie Julian in Paris where he learned Gauguin’s principles of pure color from Paul Serusier. The next year he studied under Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he came in contact with the Nabi circle: Denis, Bonnard, Vuillard and Andre. In 1894 with Toulouse Lautrec, he executed the sets of the play Chariot de Terre Cuit for the Theatre de l’Œuvre.
Valtat was one of the number of artists who in the late 1890 ‘s were painting in bold and varied manner combining the lessons of Impressionism with those of Gauguin and his followers. His color was often bright and his brushwork showed influence of the flattened planes of the Nabis, the divided brush of the neo-Impressionists and the explosive handling of Van Gogh.
From 1894 he often painted in the South of France, painting with Signac at Saint Tropez in 1903 and 1904. In the south, he evolved a vibrantly colored landscape style with an innate sense of movement, which was compared to Matisse and Derain’s fauvism introduced at the Salon d’Automne in 1905, however Valtat’s work preceded the Fauves and was hence very progressive. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Independants from 1894 and at the Salon d’ Automne from 1904.
French, 1869 – 1952
Provenance:
-Noortman Gallery, Maastricht, Holland
-Private Collection, Amsterdam, Holland
Expertise:
-Mme Monique Soubirou-Pouey, of Galerie Denise Valtat in Paris, dd. 12/5/1987, photo certificate
-Mme Caroline Valtat, the artist’s Granddaughter, photo certificate
This work is accompanied by a certificate #5438 from the Archives of the association “Les Amies de Louis Valtat” confirming that the work is to be included in the forthcoming catalog raisonee in preparation.
Louis Valtat was a painter, printmaker, and stage designer. In 1888 he entered the Academie Julian in Paris where he learned Gauguin’s principles of pure color from Paul Serusier. The next year he studied under Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he came in contact with the Nabi circle: Denis, Bonnard, Vuillard and Andre. In 1894 with Toulouse Lautrec, he executed the sets of the play Chariot de Terre Cuit for the Theatre de l’Œuvre.
Valtat was one of the number of artists who in the late 1890 ‘s were painting in bold and varied manner combining the lessons of Impressionism with those of Gauguin and his followers. His color was often bright and his brushwork showed influence of the flattened planes of the Nabis, the divided brush of the neo-Impressionists and the explosive handling of Van Gogh.
From 1894 he often painted in the South of France, painting with Signac at Saint Tropez in 1903 and 1904. In the south, he evolved a vibrantly colored landscape style with an innate sense of movement, which was compared to Matisse and Derain’s fauvism introduced at the Salon d’Automne in 1905, however Valtat’s work preceded the Fauves and was hence very progressive. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Independants from 1894 and at the Salon d’ Automne from 1904.
