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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Honoré de Balzac – Félix Vallotton
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£37.00 GBP
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£37.00 GBP
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Beschreibung
Ein kühnes, kontrastreiches Holzschnittporträt von Honoré de Balzac des Schweizer Nabis-Künstlers Félix Vallotton, ausgeführt in seinem charakteristischen grafischen Stil.
Dieses beeindruckende Porträt des französischen Romanautors Honoré de Balzac ist ein charakteristisches Beispiel für die Holzschnitttechnik, die Félix Vallotton in den 1890er Jahren verfeinerte. Vallotton, ein Mitglied der Nabis-Gruppe, revitalisierte das Medium des Holzschnitts, indem er traditionelle Kreuzschraffuren und Tonwertabstufungen eliminierte. Stattdessen setzte er auf eine scharfe, kontrastreiche Ästhetik, die ausschließlich auf dem Zusammenspiel von tiefschwarzer Tinte und dem Weiß des Papiers beruht. In dieser Darstellung fängt der Künstler die erkennbaren Züge Balzacs mit minimalen Linien ein. Die schwere, dunkle Masse des Haares und der dichte Schnurrbart bilden einen visuellen Anker, während die vereinfachten Konturen des Gesichts ein psychologisches Gewicht andeuten. Die Komposition ist bewusst flach gehalten und verzichtet auf realistische Modellierung zugunsten einer grafischen, fast ikonischen Darstellung. Das Künstlermonogramm FV ist in der unteren Ecke sichtbar, ein häufiges Merkmal in seinen Druckserien. Vallotton schuf eine große Anzahl solcher Porträts, die oft zeitgenössische Schriftsteller, Musiker und Persönlichkeiten der Fin-de-Siècle-Zeit darstellten. Diese Werke wurden häufig in Literaturzeitschriften und Magazinen veröffentlicht, wodurch avantgardistische Ästhetik einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich gemacht wurde. Indem er das Motiv auf seine wesentlichsten grafischen Elemente reduzierte, schafft Vallotton ein Porträt, das sowohl unmittelbar als auch einprägsam ist. Das Fehlen von Hintergrunddetails zwingt den Betrachter, sich ganz auf den Gesichtsausdruck und die kühne, rhythmische Qualität der Linien zu konzentrieren. Dieser Druck bietet einen klaren Einblick in die stilistischen Innovationen der Nabis, die die Kluft zwischen bildender Kunst und Grafikdesign überbrücken wollten. Die Kargheit des Bildes spiegelt das Interesse des Künstlers an japanischen Ukiyo-e-Drucken wider, die seinen Ansatz bei Komposition und Negativraum stark beeinflussten.
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Honoré de Balzac – Félix Vallotton
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Ab £30.00 GBP
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Ab £30.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Felix Vallotton
Vallotton was called the Foreign Nabi, which was both a joke and a diagnosis. He was Swiss, from a conservative family in Lausanne, and his temperament was cooler and more detached than the Parisian painters he joined in 1892. The Nabis were interested in mysticism and spiritual art. Vallotton was interested in what happens between people when they think nobody is watching.
He moved to Paris at seventeen and studied at the Academie Julian. His woodcuts, made in the 1890s, revived a medium that most printmakers had abandoned in favour of colour lithography. Working in pure black and white, he carved domestic interiors, street scenes, and a series called Intimites: ten prints depicting the private moments of married life, with an emphasis on adultery, deception and the particular loneliness of two people in the same room. The images are flat, graphic and psychologically sharp.
His support for Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely convicted of espionage, strained his relationship with several of the Nabis. He bought a Kodak camera in 1899 and began using photographs as source material for paintings, manipulating compositions into fictionalised versions of observed reality.
He married the daughter of the art dealer Alexandre Bernheim in 1899, which gave him financial security and access to the Parisian art market. He painted nudes, still lifes and landscapes with a smooth, almost clinical finish that disturbed viewers who expected warmth from pictures of naked women.
He wrote three novels and eight plays, none of which were published in his lifetime. His first novel, La Vie Meurtriere (The Murderous Life), appeared posthumously in 1930. He died the day after his sixtieth birthday.
He moved to Paris at seventeen and studied at the Academie Julian. His woodcuts, made in the 1890s, revived a medium that most printmakers had abandoned in favour of colour lithography. Working in pure black and white, he carved domestic interiors, street scenes, and a series called Intimites: ten prints depicting the private moments of married life, with an emphasis on adultery, deception and the particular loneliness of two people in the same room. The images are flat, graphic and psychologically sharp.
His support for Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely convicted of espionage, strained his relationship with several of the Nabis. He bought a Kodak camera in 1899 and began using photographs as source material for paintings, manipulating compositions into fictionalised versions of observed reality.
He married the daughter of the art dealer Alexandre Bernheim in 1899, which gave him financial security and access to the Parisian art market. He painted nudes, still lifes and landscapes with a smooth, almost clinical finish that disturbed viewers who expected warmth from pictures of naked women.
He wrote three novels and eight plays, none of which were published in his lifetime. His first novel, La Vie Meurtriere (The Murderous Life), appeared posthumously in 1930. He died the day after his sixtieth birthday.
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Museums-Giclée-Druck auf FSC-zertifiziertem, archivbeständigem, mattem Papier, wahlweise mit Rahmen oder als Leinwand.
- Papierformate: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 und B2 (50×70 cm)
- Leinwand: XS (20×30 cm) bis Large (60×90 cm)
- Rahmen: Schwarz, Naturholz, dunkles Holz oder Weiß
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
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Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
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Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Biografie des Künstlers
Félix Vallotton
Vallotton was called the Foreign Nabi, which was both a joke and a diagnosis. He was Swiss, from a conservative family in Lausanne, and his temperament was cooler and more detached than the Parisian painters he joined in 1892. The Nabis were interested in mysticism and spiritual art. Vallotton was interested in what happens between people when they think nobody is watching.
He moved to Paris at seventeen and studied at the Academie Julian. His woodcuts, made in the 1890s, revived a medium that most printmakers had abandoned in favour of colour lithography. Working in pure black and white, he carved domestic interiors, street scenes, and a series called Intimites: ten prints depicting the private moments of married life, with an emphasis on adultery, deception and the particular loneliness of two people in the same room. The images are flat, graphic and psychologically sharp.
His support for Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely convicted of espionage, strained his relationship with several of the Nabis. He bought a Kodak camera in 1899 and began using photographs as source material for paintings, manipulating compositions into fictionalised versions of observed reality.
He married the daughter of the art dealer Alexandre Bernheim in 1899, which gave him financial security and access to the Parisian art market. He painted nudes, still lifes and landscapes with a smooth, almost clinical finish that disturbed viewers who expected warmth from pictures of naked women.
He wrote three novels and eight plays, none of which were published in his lifetime. His first novel, La Vie Meurtriere (The Murderous Life), appeared posthumously in 1930. He died the day after his sixtieth birthday.
He moved to Paris at seventeen and studied at the Academie Julian. His woodcuts, made in the 1890s, revived a medium that most printmakers had abandoned in favour of colour lithography. Working in pure black and white, he carved domestic interiors, street scenes, and a series called Intimites: ten prints depicting the private moments of married life, with an emphasis on adultery, deception and the particular loneliness of two people in the same room. The images are flat, graphic and psychologically sharp.
His support for Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely convicted of espionage, strained his relationship with several of the Nabis. He bought a Kodak camera in 1899 and began using photographs as source material for paintings, manipulating compositions into fictionalised versions of observed reality.
He married the daughter of the art dealer Alexandre Bernheim in 1899, which gave him financial security and access to the Parisian art market. He painted nudes, still lifes and landscapes with a smooth, almost clinical finish that disturbed viewers who expected warmth from pictures of naked women.
He wrote three novels and eight plays, none of which were published in his lifetime. His first novel, La Vie Meurtriere (The Murderous Life), appeared posthumously in 1930. He died the day after his sixtieth birthday.
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