The work of Félix Vallotton caught the eye of Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, and with them he joined a stylistic revolution (a group known as the Nabis) which took inspiration from the decorative, Post-Impressionist style of Paul Gauguin and popular Japanese woodblock prints. Trace the life and work of the Swiss painter who became one of the greatest printmakers of his age in the UK’s first major survey.Īrriving in Paris at the dawn of the Belle Epoque, a young Swiss artist began to capture frenetic life on the city’s streets, as well as moments of private drama for the liberal magazine, La Revue Blanche.
Compared to his contemporaries Bonnard and Vuillard, Félix Vallotton is little-known on this side of the channel.
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