Louis Valtat's vibrant, expressive seascapes and street scenes reside in the highly-charged space between Impressionism, with its lyrical evocation of shifting light and atmosphere, and Fauvism, with its ferocity of color and gestural exuberance. Louis Valtat was born on August 8, 1869 in Dieppe, France, into a wealthy family involved with the shipping industry. Encouraged by his father, an amateur landscape painter, the young Valtat studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later the Barbizon School, where his peers included Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Valtat established a studio in Paris in 1890 and debuted at the Salon three years later with street scenes that employed the painterly vocabulary of Impressionism and Pointillism. In 1894, he collaborated with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the décor for the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, where Alfred Jarry's proto-Dada play Ubu Roi would soon premiere. At the turn of the century, Valtat made several visits to Auguste Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer, with whom he collaborated on a sculpture of Paul Cézanne. His hues and brushstrokes became bolder as he spent more time admiring the sun-soaked splendor of the Mediterranean coast, although he did not fully adopt the strident saturation and planar figuration that characterized the work of Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and the other Fauves with whom he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1906. Valtat continued to paint until 1948, when his glaucoma left him nearly blind. He died on January 2, 1952 in Paris. Valtat's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Musuem of Modern Art in New York and the Museo Thyssen in Madrid, among many other major world institutions.

Louis Valtat

Modern & Contemporary Discoveries including Works from the former Claude et Georges Pompidou Collection

Provenant d'une Importante Collection Particulière

Provenant d'une Importante Collection Particulière Louis Valtat 1869 - 1952 Femmes sur la plage huile sur toile de jute marouflé sur carton 23,9 x 26,1 cm; 9⅜ x 10¼ in. Exécuté en 1916.

femmes sur la plage

Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Française

Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Française Louis Valtat 1869-1952 Bouquet de fleurs porte le cachet LV (en bas à gauche) huile sur papier marouflé sur toile 88,7 x 116,2 cm; 34⅞ x 45¾ in. Cette œuvre est enregistrée dans les archives de "L'Association les amis de Louis Valtat".

bouquet de fleurs

Provenant d'une Importante Collection Particulière Louis Valtat 1869 - 1952 Les vaches à la rivière signé des initiales L.V (en bas à droite) huile sur papier marouflé sur panneau parqueté 51,7 x 66,3 cm; 20⅜ x 26⅛ in. Exécuté en 1894.

View 1 of Lot 160: Les vaches à la rivière

les vaches à la rivière

Provenant d'une Importante Collection Particulière Louis Valtat 1869 - 1952 Fleurs des champs, les coquelicots signé L.V (en bas à droite) huile sur toile 44 x 52,5 cm; 17⅜ x 20⅝ in. Exécuté en 1914.

View 1 of Lot 66: Fleurs des champs, les coquelicots

fleurs des champs, les coquelicots

Provenant d'une Importante Collection Particulière Louis Valtat 1869 - 1952 Pastèque et tomates signé des initiales L.V (en bas à droite) huile sur carton marouflé sur panneau 46,5 x 61 cm; 18¼ x 24 in. Exécuté en 1899.

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