Oil on Canvas, relined
France, around 1918
Louis Valtat (1869-1952) – French painter from the circle of the Fauvists
Signed lower right ‘L. Valtat’
With an exhibition label of Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1995 and two further labels on the stretcher
With the stamp ‘Vente R. Domergue 21. Juin 2007’ on the stretcher
Catalog raisonné: Jean Valtat, Catalogue de L’Œuvre peint, 1869-1952, Nr. 83, p. 112
In gilded ornament frame
Provenance: Collection René Domergue; Museé des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Hotel Drouot, Paris, auction ‘Collection René Domergue’, June 21, 2007, lot 73; Dutch private collection
Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm
Good condition
Picturesque view over cornfields of the French painter Louis Valtat; the auction record for a painting by the artist is currently at more than €700,000.

In direct, loose brushstrokes, that left the canvas in places unprocessed, the French painter Louis Valtat has captured a view over cornfields on a forest. Local colors condensed to areas alternate in exiting interplay with compartmentalized dabbed atmospheric parts. There are influences of Impressionism and Fauvism, which Valtat handle in his own unique style.

This painting is from the collection of the art critic and journalist René Domergue, which provided a large number of post-Impressionist works by various artists and came up for auction Paris in 2007.

The painting is signed lower right ‘L. Valtat’. On the stretcher there is an exhibition label of Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1995, as well as two further labels and a stamp ‘Vente R. Domergue 21. Juin 2007‘. It is in overall good condition, the canvas is relined. The frame is in overall good condition, too, with small material losses. The painting measures 54 x 65 cm. The framed dimensions are 70 x 81 cm.

Louis Valtat (1869-1952)

In 1888 Louis Valtat attended the Académie Julian in Paris, which taught Gauguin’s principles on the use of pure color. A brief stay in Gustave Moreau’s studio followed. In 1890 Valtat opened his own studio in Paris. In 1894 he painted the stage designs for a play at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in collaboration with Toulouse-Lautrec. He first showed his paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. When he exhibited some of his works with artists at the Salon d’Automne in 1905, the group caused a scandal and a critic created the new term ‘fauves’. In 1914 Valtat moved from the south of France to Paris, where he painted numerous portraits of his family. Thanks to a contract with the gallery owner Ambroise Vollard in 1900, many of his paintings were acquired by important collectors. (fea)

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