Félix Vallotton: Longing and Seduction

Around 1900, Paris was the undisputed center of the European avant-garde. At the age of just sixteen, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) moved from Lausanne to the French capital, where he emerged as one of the most original voices of modern art. As a member of the Nabis from 1892 onwards, Vallotton was in close dialogue with Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Maurice Denis. As the only foreign artist in the group and because of his reserved and unconventional personality, he was nicknamed Le Nabi étranger. Yet despite his close ties to the Nabis, he pursued a distinctly independent artistic path…