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Dimensions: measurements 25 1/2 by 32 in. alternate measurements 64.8 by 81.3 cm
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Provenance: Private Collection, Europe (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 1987, lot 296)
Hilde Gerst Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1989
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Exhibited:
Geneva, Petit Palais, Centenaire Louis Valtat, 1969, no. 8
Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Von Licht zur Farbe, 1977, p. 35
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Notes: Best known for his resplendent landscapes and vivid flower compositions, Louis Valtat was to become a highly-regarded painter of the Post-Impressionist period. Having absorbed the chief tenets of classical Impressionism and Pointillism in the 1890s, Valtat was both intrigued and influenced by contemporaries such as Matisse, Marquet, Camoin, Manguin, Vlaminck, Derain, Dufy and Van Dongen, with whom he exhibited at the famous Salon d'Automne of 1905. The present work, executed in Spain 1894, is an incredibly strong example of his post impressionist style with vivid color and strong brush work, evocative of the soon to be Fauves. Fauvism
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