The Purple Hat, c. 1907
Oil on canvas
81 x 65,5 cm.
Private collection
In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux…
Zaidan Gallery 
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