Portrait de famille Valtat (La Dictee)

Louis VALTAT
(Dieppe 1869 - 1952 Paris)


Portrait de famille Valtat (La Dictee)

oil on canvas: 25 1/2 x 32 inches
Signed lower right: L. Valtat

Provenance:
Phillips Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida
Private collection, Delaware
sale: Brunk, 8 September 2007, lot 296 (sold for $ 72,000)
Private collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Private collection, Phoenix, AZ

Accompanied by certificate of authenticity from Madame Denise Valtat, who indicates it was painted in 1915

This work is recorded in the archives of L'Association Les Amis de Louis Valtat


Louis VALTAT (Dieppe 1869 - 1952 Paris)

Valtat studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and spent a great deal of time in the south of France. Early in his career he made the acquaintance of Bonnard and Vuillard; later he also met Renoir, Signac and Cross. His first works were Pointillist in character, but about 1895 he began to use pure strong color to construct his shapes. He was one of the first painters to adapt this approach, which through Matisse and Marquet developed into the Fauvist movement. After 1913 Valtat settled in Paris and dropped out of the public gaze. His work is now being recognized as an important contribution to the development of modern art.

Museum collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Suntory Art Museum, Tokyo
Mannerheim Museum, Helsinki
Museum des Beaux-Arts, Nimes
Le Havre Museum, Le Havre
Museum of Art History, Dreux
Municipal Museum, Cahors
Museum de l'Annonciade, Saint-Tropez
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad