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Corn Fields
Félix Vallotton1900
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Corn Fields
- Creator: Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
- Date Created: 1900
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Galerie Jacques-Rodrigues-Henriques [1886-1968], Paris, France), Mme Debrise, Paris, France, (Galerie Vallotton, no. 13179, Lausanne, Switzerland), (Sotheby's, Zurich, Switzerland, May 27, 2008, lot 38, sold to Samuel Josefovitz), Samuel Josefovitz [1921-2015], Lausanne, Switzerland, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.115
- Medium: oil on board
- Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right (twice): F. VALLOTTON. 00
- Fun Fact: 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.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2020.115
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