LOUIS VALTAT | Vase de roses, Les trois vases aux fleurs roses

Private Collection, United Kingdom
Thence by descent to the present owner

Jean Valtat, Louis Valtat, Catalogue de l’œuvre peint 1869-1952, Paris, 1977, vol. I, no. 2123, illustrated p. 236

The canvas is not lined and examination under UV light reveals no signs of retouching. There is a small area of craquelure to the green pigments in the upper left quadrant, as well as some further isolated lines of very fine and entirely stable craquelure to the pink flowers. This work is in overall very good condition and may benefit from a light clean.
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‘Valtat quenches his thirst for painting through his bouquets of flowers. They punctuate his œuvre to such a great degree that towards the end of his life, flowers became the artist’s only motif, as if any other subject seemed vain in comparison to the free space offered by this “non-subject”.'
(Louis Valtat, Exposition rétrospective (exhibition catalogue), Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1995, p.121)

This work is recorded in the archives of l’Association Les amis de Louis Valtat.