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FÉLIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)
La baignade à Etretat
signed and dated 'F.Vallotton.99' (lower right)
oil on board
19 5⁄8 x 25 1⁄2 in. (49.6 x 64.7 cm.)
Painted in 1899
Provenance
The artist's estate (no. 78); sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2001, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Artist's Handlist, no. 408 (titled 'Divers sujets bains de mers, Etretat').
Le Cri de Paris, 8 April 1900, p. 5.
A. Fontainas, 'Art Moderne', in Mercure de France, May 1900, p. 544.
H. Hahnloser-Bühler, Félix Vallotton et ses amis, Paris, 1936, no. 408, p. 284 (illustrated fig. 35, p. 20; titled 'Bains de mer à Dinan' and incorrectly dated).
R. Escholier, La peinture française, XXe siècle, Paris, 1937, p. 17 (illustrated).
C. Estienne, 'Les arts. Tour d'expositions. Expositions d'ensemble' in Combat. De la Résistance à la Revolution, 26 March 1947, p. 2 (illustrated).
C. Chassé, Les Nabis et leur temps, Paris, 1960, no. 30, p. 182 (illustrated pl. 30; titled 'La Baignade' and catalogued with inverted dimensions).
G. Marussi, 'Odilon Redon e i Nabis' in Le Arti. Rassegna di attualità artistica, vol. XIII, no. 11, Milan, November 1963 (illustrated).
F. Jourdain, Félix Vallotton Mit einer Studie von Edmond Jaloux, Zurich, 1967 (illustrated pl. 24).
R. Koella, Das Bild der Landschaft im Schaffen von Félix Vallotton Wesen, Bedeutung, Entwicklung, dis., University of Zurich, 1969, vol. I, p. 107.
G. Guisan & D. Jakubac, Félix Vallotton Documents pour une biographie et pour l'histoire d'une œuvre, Lausanne & Paris, 1973-1975, p. 214.
R. Micha, 'Paris. Félix Vallotton' in Art International, Lugano, vol. XX, no. 1-2, January - February 1976, p. 64.
R. Jullian, Le mouvement des arts du romantisme au symbolisme. Arts visuels, musique, littérature, Paris, 1979, p. 451.
A. Saint James, Félix Vallotton The Nabi Years, dis., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1982, no. 85, pp. 248 & 308.
G. Busch, B. Dorival, P. Grainville & D. Jakubec, Vallotton, Lausanne, 1985, no. 60, p. 233 (illustrated p. 56).
M. Ducrey, Félix Vallotton la vie, la technique, l'œuvre peint, Lausanne, 1989, pp. 78 & 161 (illustrated p. 79).
A. Ellridge, Gauguin et les Nabis, Paris, 1993, p. 192 (illustrated; incorrectly dated '1897').
Exh. cat., Le très singulier Vallotton, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon & Musée Cantini, Marseille, 2001, p. 100.
Exh. cat., R. Koella, Félix Vallotton Les couchers de soleil, Kunstmuseum, Bern & Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 2004, p. 109 (illustrated fig. 4).
M. Ducrey & K. Poletti, Félix Vallotton l'œuvre peint, vol. II, Lausanne, 2005, no. 275, p. 168 (illustrated p. 169).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Nabis, April 1900, no. 9 (titled 'Le bain').
Halle (Saale), Kunstsalon Asmann, March - April 1902.
Paris, Galerie Druet, Exposition Félix Vallotton Peintures 1886-1919, May - June 1923, no. 31 (titled 'Baigneurs').
Basel, Kunsthalle, René Auberjonois, Albert Kohler, Alexander Soldenhoff, Félix Vallotton May 1926, no. 157 (titled 'Baigneurs').
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Félix Vallotton January - February 1928, no. 27 (titled 'Baigneurs', catalogued with inverted dimensions and incorrect medium).
Paris, Galerie Druet, Vallotton inconnu, Œuvres exécutées par Félix Vallotton entre 1884 et 1909, April - May 1929, no. 38 (illustrated; 'Le bain').
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Manière inattendue des peintres, March 1947.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Die Maler der Revue blanche, Toulouse-Lautrec und die Nabis, March - April 1951, no. 138 (titled 'Baignade' and catalogued with incorrect dimensions).
London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., Paris in the Nineties, May - June 1954, no. 87 (illustrated; titled 'La baignade' and catalogued with inverted dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to Vevey, Musée Jenisch, July - September 1954, no. 150 (illustrated; titled 'La baignade').
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les nabis, June - October 1955, no. 170, p. 68 (titled 'La baignade' and incorrectly catalogued as 'signed and dated lower left').
Basel, Kunsthalle, Félix Vallotton January - February 1957, no. 41 (titled 'Baignade à Etretat'); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, March - April 1957, no. 24.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Edouard Vuillard October - November 1959, no. 207, p. 57 (titled 'Il Bagno' and incorrectly catalogued as 'signed and dated lower left').
Paris, Salon d'Automne, Exposition rétrospective des œuvres de Félix Vallotton October - November 1963, no. 26 (titled 'le Bain').
Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Die Nabis und ihre Freunde, October 1963 - January 1964, no. 278 (illustrated; titled 'Baigneurs à Etretat').
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Félix Vallotton April - May 1965, no. 52, p. 71 (illustrated pl. XVI; titled 'Baigneurs à Etretat').
Paris, Galerie de Paris, La cage aux Fauves du Salon d'automne 1905, October - November 1965.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Vallotton, October - November 1966, no. 30, pp. 41-42 (illustrated; incorrectly catalogued as 'signed lower left'); this exhibition later travelled to Charleroi, Palais des beaux-arts, December 1966 - January 1967.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Félix Vallotton April 1970, no. 17 (illustrated pl. 17; titled 'Bathing in the Sea').
Honfleur, Grenier à sel, Félix Vallotton July - August 1973, no. 2 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Arts plastiques modernes, Félix Vallotton 1975 - 1976.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Félix Vallotton October - November 1978, no. 34 (titled 'Baigneurs à Étretat'); this exhibition later traveled to: Bremen, Kunsthalle, December 1978 - January 1979; Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, February - March 1979; Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, April - June 1979; Geneva, Musée Rath, July - September 1979.
Paris, Galerie La Cave, Les nabis, April - July 1980, no. 36.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée du Prieuré, L'éclatement de l'impressionnisme, October 1982 - January 1983, no. 89 (titled 'La baignade').
New York, Wildenstein & Co., La revue blanche, Paris in the days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, November - December 1983, p. 87 (illustrated p. 38; catalogued with inverted dimensions).
Honfleur, Musée Eugène Boudin Félix Vallotton Honfleur et la Normandie, July - October 1999, no. 3, p. 74 (illustrated p. 34).