Sunset at Grace, Orange and Violet Sky, 1918, Felix Vallotton, Fr. Swiss [no. 23-12-41]

Sunset at Grace, Orange and Violet Sky, 1918, Felix Vallotton.

Felix Vallotton was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne, and there he attended Collège Cantonal, graduating with a degree in classical studies in 1882. In that year he moved to Paris to study art under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He spent many hours in the Louvre, where he greatly admired the works of Holbein, Dürer and Ingres; these artists would remain exemplars for Vallotton throughout his life.