Félix Vallotton Critique D'art

Félix Vallotton penned his first art criticism in 1890, at a pivotal moment in his own career as an artist. He wrote some forty articles by 1921 appearing mostly in La Gazette de Lausanne and essays on art. Writing mainly for a Suisse Romand readership, he expressed himself freely in a very unaffected, even ironic, tone which made no bones about his own aesthetic preferences.

This book illustrates Vallotton's work as an art critic, in which the artist was able to exploit his training to turn his penetrating eye on the Parisian art scene at the turn of the century.