The Red Room, Etretat

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1899

Félix Edouard Vallotton (Swiss, 1865–1925)

Status: On View, Gallery 244
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Félix Edouard Vallotton
Title: The Red Room, Etretat
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1899
Medium: Oil on artist's board
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: F. Vallotton
Dimensions: 49.2 × 51.3 cm (19 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 65.4 × 6.4 cm (24 3/4 × 25 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells
Reference Number: 1977.606
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Isabelle de la Brunière and Phillippe Grapeloup-Roche, “Vallotton and the Camera: Art and the Science of Photography,” Apollo (June 1994), pp. 18–23, 19 (ill.).
R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists, Art Institute of Chicago and Harry N. Ambrams (New York, 1987), pp. 85–86, 87 (color ill.).
Mariana Ducrey, Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925, L’Oeuvre Peint vol. II (Lausanne, 2005) no. 267.
Katia Poletti, “Vallotton and Photography Freeze Frame,” Snapshot: Painters and Photography 1888-1915, ed. Elizabeth W. Easton, Exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p. 179, cat. 153, p. 217, 227, 232.
Poletti, Katia, “Un Regard Photographique,” in Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Le fou sous la glace, Exh. cat. (Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, 2013), p. 127-133, cat. 65
Felix Valloton, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, 2019), pp. 93
Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemoneded Brown, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 110-11, 137 cat. 81, 139, 267.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces from Private Collections in Chicago, July 12–August 31, 1969, no cat no.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986, cat. 65.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Felix Vallotton, October 24, 1991-January 5, 1992; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 31–March 29, 1992; Indianapolis, Museum of Art, April 25–June 11, 1992, p. 33, (ill.) p. 35.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, The Nabis, 1888–1900, May 29–August 16, 1993, cat. 136; Paris, Grand Palais, September 22, 1993–January 4, 1994; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, January 11-February 13, 1994.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Degas to Picasso: The Sculptor, The Painter and the Camera, October 1, 1999-January 4, 2000; Dallas Museum of Art February February 1, 2000-May 7, 2000; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao June 12, 2000-September 10, 2000.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Snapshot! Painter/ Photogrophers from Bonnard to Vuillard, Ocober 14, 2011-January 15, 2012, cat. 153; travels to Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Febuary 4-May 6, 2012, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 6- September 9, 2012.
Paris, Galeries nationales d’exposition du Grand Palais, Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Le fou sous la glace, September 30, 2013–January 20, 2014, cat. 65; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, February 14–June 1, 2014; Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, June 14–September 23, 2014.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, June 27 - September 29 2019, cat. 28, traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 29 2019 - January 26 2020.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1890-1900, June 27-Sep. 19, 2021, cat. 81; Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 24, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022.

The artist; sold to Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1907 [this and the following according to Ducrey 2005]. Pierre Etienne Goujon (1875–1914) and Lily Goujon (née Reinach, 1885–1971), before 1914; their sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 28, 1919, lot 71bis (hors catalogue). Possibly Galerie Druet, Paris [according to London 1967 and email correspondence with Marina Ducrey, Nov. 29, 2018, in curatorial object file]. Mrs. R. G. Wood, by 1967; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 29, 1967 to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; sold to Mary Runnells (died 1977), 1968 [letter from Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt to Mary Runnells, Oct. 2, 1968, in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

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