The Lie, plate one from Intimacies
Medium
Woodcut in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 × 22.5 cm (7 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 32.5 cm (9 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
62158
About the Artist
Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1865–1925
Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker whose deceptively spare imagery concealed a penetrating psychological acuity and a gift for formal invention. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved to Paris at the age of seventeen to study at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, quickly immersing himself in the city's vital avant-garde scene. By the 1890s he had beco...