The Red Room, Etretat by Félix Edouard Vallotton
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The Red Room, Etretat

Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1899

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold to Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1907 [this and the following according to Ducrey 2005]. Pierre Etienne Goujon (1875–1914) and Lily Goujon (née Reinach, 1885–1971), before 1914; their sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 28, 1919, lot 71bis (hors catalogue). Possibly Galerie Druet, Paris [according to London 1967 and email correspondence with Marina Ducrey, Nov. 29, 2018, in curatorial object file]. Mrs. R. G. Wood, by 1967; sold, Sotheby's, London, Nov. 29, 1967 to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; sold to Mary Runnells (died 1977), 1968 [letter from Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt to Mary Runnells, Oct. 2, 1968, in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces from Private Collections in Chicago, July 12–August 31, 1969, no cat no.
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986, cat. 65.
  • New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Felix Vallotton, October 24, 1991-January 5, 1992; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 31–March 29, 1992; Indianapolis, Museum of Art, April 25–June 11, 1992, p. 33, (ill.) p. 35.
  • Zurich, Kunsthaus, The Nabis, 1888–1900, May 29–August 16, 1993, cat. 136; Paris, Grand Palais, September 22, 1993–January 4, 1994; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, January 11-February 13, 1994.
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Degas to Picasso: The Sculptor, The Painter and the Camera, October 1, 1999-January 4, 2000; Dallas Museum of Art February February 1, 2000-May 7, 2000; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao June 12, 2000-September 10, 2000.
  • Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Snapshot! Painter/ Photogrophers from Bonnard to Vuillard, Ocober 14, 2011-January 15, 2012, cat. 153; travels to Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Febuary 4-May 6, 2012, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 6- September 9, 2012.
  • Paris, Galeries nationales d’exposition du Grand Palais, Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Le fou sous la glace, September 30, 2013–January 20, 2014, cat. 65; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, February 14–June 1, 2014; Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, June 14–September 23, 2014.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, June 27 - September 29 2019, cat. 28, traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 29 2019 - January 26 2020.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1890-1900, June 27-Sep. 19, 2021, cat. 81; Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 24, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022.

Literature

Published references

  • Isabelle de la Brunière and Phillippe Grapeloup-Roche, “Vallotton and the Camera: Art and the Science of Photography,” Apollo (June 1994), pp. 18–23, 19 (ill.).
  • R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists, Art Institute of Chicago and Harry N. Ambrams (New York, 1987), pp. 85–86, 87 (color ill.).
  • Mariana Ducrey, Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925, L’Oeuvre Peint vol. II (Lausanne, 2005) no. 267.
  • Katia Poletti, “Vallotton and Photography Freeze Frame,” Snapshot: Painters and Photography 1888-1915, ed. Elizabeth W. Easton, Exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p. 179, cat. 153, p. 217, 227, 232.
  • Poletti, Katia, "Un Regard Photographique," in Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Le fou sous la glace, Exh. cat. (Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, 2013), p. 127-133, cat. 65
  • Felix Valloton, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, 2019), pp. 93
  • Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemoneded Brown, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 110-11, 137 cat. 81, 139, 267.

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