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Materials:
oil on board
Size Notes:
49.6 x 64.7 cm.
Description:
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Markings:
signed and dated 'F.Vallotton.99'
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Nabis, April 1900, no. 9 (titled 'Le bain').Halle (Saale), Kunstsalon Asmann, March - April 1902.Paris, Galerie Druet, Exposition Flix Vallotton, Peintures 1886-1919, May - June 1923, no. 31 (titled 'Baigneurs').Basel, Kunsthalle, Ren Auberjonois, Albert Kohler, Alexander Soldenhoff, Flix Vallotton, May 1926, no. 157 (titled 'Baigneurs').Zurich, Kunsthaus, Flix Vallotton, January - February 1928, no. 27 (titled 'Baigneurs', catalogued with inverted dimensions and incorrect medium).Paris, Galerie Druet, Vallotton inconnu, uvres excutes par Flix Vallotton entre 1884 et 1909, April - May 1929, no. 38 (illustrated; 'Le bain').Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Manire 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, Muse Jenisch, July - September 1954, no. 150 (illustrated; titled 'La baignade').Paris, Muse 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, Flix Vallotton, January - February 1957, no. 41 (titled 'Baignade Etretat'); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstverein fr 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 rtrospective des uvres de Flix 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 Etretat').Zurich, Kunsthaus, Flix Vallotton, April - May 1965, no. 52, p. 71 (illustrated pl. XVI; titled 'Baigneurs Etretat').Paris, Galerie de Paris, La cage aux Fauves du Salon d'automne 1905, October - November 1965.Paris, Muse 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., Flix Vallotton, April 1970, no. 17 (illustrated pl. 17; titled 'Bathing in the Sea').Honfleur, Grenier sel, Flix Vallotton, July - August 1973, no. 2 (illustrated).Paris, Galerie Arts plastiques modernes, Flix Vallotton, 1975 - 1976.Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Flix Vallotton, October - November 1978, no. 34 (titled 'Baigneurs tretat'); this exhibition later traveled to: Bremen, Kunsthalle, December 1978 - January 1979; Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, February - March 1979; Paris, Muse du Petit Palais, April - June 1979; Geneva, Muse Rath, July - September 1979.Paris, Galerie La Cave, Les nabis, April - July 1980, no. 36.Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Muse du Prieur, L'clatement 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, Muse Eugne Boudin, Flix Vallotton, Honfleur et la Normandie, July - October 1999, no. 3, p. 74 (illustrated p. 34).
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-Bhler, Flix Vallotton et ses amis, Paris, 1936, no. 408, p. 284 (illustrated fig. 35, p. 20; titled 'Bains de mer Dinan' and incorrectly dated).R. Escholier, La peinture franaise, XXe sicle, Paris, 1937, p. 17 (illustrated). C. Estienne, 'Les arts. Tour d'expositions. Expositions d'ensemble' in Combat. De la Rsistance la Revolution, 26 March 1947, p. 2 (illustrated).C. Chass, 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 attualit artistica, vol. XIII, no. 11, Milan, November 1963 (illustrated).F. Jourdain, Flix Vallotton. Mit einer Studie von Edmond Jaloux, Zurich, 1967 (illustrated pl. 24).R. Koella, Das Bild der Landschaft im Schaffen von Flix Vallotton. Wesen, Bedeutung, Entwicklung, dis., University of Zurich, 1969, vol. I, p. 107.G. Guisan & D. Jakubac, Flix Vallotton. Documents pour une biographie et pour l'histoire d'une uvre, Lausanne & Paris, 1973-1975, p. 214.R. Micha, 'Paris. Flix 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, littrature, Paris, 1979, p. 451.A. Saint James, Flix 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, Flix Vallotton, la vie, la technique, l'uvre 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 trs singulier Vallotton, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Lyon & Muse Cantini, Marseille, 2001, p. 100. Exh. cat., R. Koella, Flix Vallotton, Les couchers de soleil, Kunstmuseum, Bern & Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 2004, p. 109 (illustrated fig. 4).M. Ducrey & K. Poletti, Flix Vallotton, l'uvre peint, vol. II, Lausanne, 2005, no. 275, p. 168 (illustrated p. 169).
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.