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Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet
The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Vallotton’s varied and strange work proves that some artists defy easy definitions
Félix Vallotton, Self-portrait at the Age of Twenty (detail), 1885.
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquisition, 1896. Inv. 620.
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Photo: © Nora Rupp, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne.
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London
30 June – 29 September 2019
by EMILY SPICER
A 20-year-old Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) looks out from his self-portrait with a pallid face and watery, red-rimmed eyes.
He is standing against a green-grey background, his chin down, misery etched on his fragile features. He is not scrutinising himself, it seems, but looking at us, the viewer, as though we have just walked into the room at a bad moment.
This is one of the images that greets us at the Royal Academy’s exhibition Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, a show that includes about 100 work