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Stamp by Félix Vallotton
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
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A tribute to Félix Vallotton
Dessinateur de presse, graveur, peintre, critique d'art et romancier, né en 1865 à Lausanne (Suisse), Félix Vallotton, atteint d'un cancer, meurt le 29 décembre 1925 des suites d'une opération à l'hôpital de Neuilly ; il avait eu 60 ans la veille. L’artiste repose au cimetière du Montparnasse. En son hommage et avec respect, nous déposons la fleur du cinéraire et son jaune pur.
"Félix Vallotton est un homme juste qui ne veut pas se leurrer dans le pire, comme d'autres dans le mieux, et il cherche en toutes choses, de bonne foi, la vérité." - Octave Mirbeau
"Monsieur Vallotton, comme on dirait Monsieur Ingres." - Pierre du Colombier
"Les paysages de Vallotton ne sont pas des interprétations, mais des équivalences." - Antonin Artaud
"Ami de nombreux écrivains, de Mallarmé à André Gide, et lui-même homme de lettres, Vallotton porte au premier plan l’exigence du sens." - Dominique Widemann, journaliste
"Un tableau, avant d’être un cheval de bataille ou une femme nue, est une surface plane recouverte de couleurs en un certain ordre assemblées." - Maurice Denis
"La grande originalité de l'oeuvre gravée de Vallotton tient à la richesse et à la diversité de ses inventions, mais aussi et surtout à cette qualité d'intelligence, à la fois enjouée et sceptique, qui se manifeste par l'ambiguïté et ne se livre que par énigmes." - Manuel Jover
Notes of biography
Félix Edouard Vallotton was born at the end of 1865 in Lausanne, Switzerland where his father had a drug store. He followed classical studies, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Latin and Greek, at this time he already had a taste for the arts and painting. Félix Vallotton leaves for Paris to attend courses at the Julian Academy; he is quickly noticed and passes the entrance examination to enter the School of Fine Arts, where he is accepted in 1883. While he is living in Paris, he returns regularly to Switzerland for vacation. He meets numerous Swiss artists (Biéler, Reichlen, Gaulis, Blancpain, etc.) and becomes friends with Charles Maurin and the engraver Félix Jasinski. He is passionate about portraits. His art often takes on a certain liberty in respect to the academics with whom he studied.
The artist has great financial difficulty. He exhibits for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants in1891. After 1890 he takes up wood engraving, producing two etched engravings inspired by Rembrandt and Millet. The revival that is inspired by this old technique quickly brings him international notoriety of an artist at the point of modernising.
He becomes friends with Vuillard, Bonnard and Maurice Denis, the joins the Nabis group and becomes the principal illustrator for La Revue Blanche. His marriage in 1899 to the daughter of great painting merchant Alexandre Bernheim marks a turning point in his career. He dedicates himself to painting, his first vocation.
In 1900, he is naturalized French. His art does not break with tradition but overwhelms it with his powerful decorative effects, with a palette where the sombre tones alternate with colors that are brighter, that often clash and that are sometimes dreamlike. Fiercely independant, he elaborates his own style in a few years. Moreover, Félix Vallotton is a prolific designer, he tries his hand at sculpture and applied arts, he writes (art critics, novels, theatre, essays, journals, etc.).
Secretive and passionate, thoughtful and sensual, misanthrope and seducer, aspiring with luck but regaling with suffering, the man is as complex as his art in knowing an apparent simplicity. He belonged to the most prestigious art societies, he participated in all the great international exhibitions, in 1903, at the first Salon d’Automne, where he is a founding member, and at the Vienna Secession, where he presents a dozen paintings and receives congratulations from Gustav Klimt and Hodler.
Vallotton takes many trips (Germany, Holland, Sweden, Italy, etc.), and makes more friendships (Manguin, Marquet, etc.). In 1909, he participates in the Foundations of the Ranson Academy, with Vuillard, Bonnard, Denis et Roussel, whilst in Zurich, the Kunstlehaus organizes the first exhibition that is completely dedicated to his work. The exhibitions dedicated to him multiple.
The summer of 1914, Félix Vallotton is in Honfleur, when the war is declared. He tried to enlist voluntarily, but is refused for reasons of his age. In 1917, he visits the Front that inspires a series of war landscapes. At the end of the First World War, he takes trips to different regions of France until 1924, all in continuing to paint until his sickness wins him over.
In 1925, Félix Vallotton is hospitalized in Paris to have an operation. The artist, who was close to his 60th Birthday, dies following the operation.
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To read about the artist :
- « Documents pour une biographie … », 3 Vol., Ed. Bibliothèque des arts, 1973
- « F. Vallotton. La vie, la technique, l'oeuvre peint », M. Ducrey, Edita, 1989
- « Félix Vallotton », collection Noir et Blanc, Ed. Sauret, Monaco, 1993
- « Le très singulier Vallotton », D. Brachlianoff et autres, R.M.N., 2001
- « F. Vallotton : De la gravure à la peinture », C. Rümelin, Ed. Benteli, 2010
- Felix Vallotton, critique d'art », R. Koella et K. Poletti, 5 Continents Ed., Milan, 2012
- « La vie en noir, dessins de presse », Editions de Paris, 2013
- « Vallotton est inadmissible », Maryline Desbiolles, Ed. du Seuil, 2013
- « Vallotton », monographie, Marina Ducrey, Milan, 5 Continents Ed., 2013
- « Félix Vallotton sous le feu de la critique » K. Poletti, RMN, Grand Palais, Paris, 2013
To read from the artist :
- « Les soupirs de Cyprien Morus » (Roman), Ed. Les Trois Collines, Paris, 1944
- « La vie meurtrière », roman de Félix Vallotton, Ed. Phébus, 2009
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Stamp by Félix Vallotton
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsWatch
A tribute to Félix Vallotton
Dessinateur de presse, graveur, peintre, critique d'art et romancier, né en 1865 à Lausanne (Suisse), Félix Vallotton, atteint d'un cancer, meurt le 29 décembre 1925 des suites d'une opération à l'hôpital de Neuilly ; il avait eu 60 ans la veille. L’artiste repose au cimetière du Montparnasse. En son hommage et avec respect, nous déposons la fleur du cinéraire et son jaune pur.
"Félix Vallotton est un homme juste qui ne veut pas se leurrer dans le pire, comme d'autres dans le mieux, et il cherche en toutes choses, de bonne foi, la vérité." - Octave Mirbeau
"Monsieur Vallotton, comme on dirait Monsieur Ingres." - Pierre du Colombier
"Les paysages de Vallotton ne sont pas des interprétations, mais des équivalences." - Antonin Artaud
"Ami de nombreux écrivains, de Mallarmé à André Gide, et lui-même homme de lettres, Vallotton porte au premier plan l’exigence du sens." - Dominique Widemann, journaliste
"Un tableau, avant d’être un cheval de bataille ou une femme nue, est une surface plane recouverte de couleurs en un certain ordre assemblées." - Maurice Denis
"La grande originalité de l'oeuvre gravée de Vallotton tient à la richesse et à la diversité de ses inventions, mais aussi et surtout à cette qualité d'intelligence, à la fois enjouée et sceptique, qui se manifeste par l'ambiguïté et ne se livre que par énigmes." - Manuel Jover
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