Cleveland Museum of Art
Corn Fields
Félix VallottonLinkedCulture matchlcp-33d86593d95e
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- oil on board
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 83462
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky. In 1892, Vallotton joined a circle of French artists known as The Nabis (Prophets) who emphasized decoration, abstraction, and discrete, intimate emotion in their paintings.
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- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Provenance
- by 1928: (Galerie Jacques-Rodrigues-Henriques [1886-1968], Paris, France) | 1945–?: Mme Debrise, Paris, France | 1988–?: (Galerie Vallotton, no. 13179, Lausanne, Switzerland) | May 27, 2008: (Sotheby's, Zurich, Switzerland, May 27, 2008, lot 38, sold to Samuel Josefovitz) | 2008–?: Samuel Josefovitz [1921-2015], Lausanne, Switzerland, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley | 2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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