The Winner
Medium
Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 22.4 × 17.8 cm (8 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.7 × 25.8 cm (12 7/8 × 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
223873
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...