FÉLIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

La paresse (Laziness)

Price realised USD 50,400
Estimate
USD 40,000 – USD 60,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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FÉLIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

La paresse (Laziness)

Price realised USD 50,400
Price realised USD 50,400
Details
FÉLIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)
La paresse (Laziness)
woodcut
1896
on cream wove paper
signed in blue crayon
numbered '9', from the edition of approximately 180
Image: 7 x 8 ¾ in. (178 x 222 mm.)
Sheet: 9 ¼ x 11 5⁄8 in. (235 x 295 mm.)
Provenance
With David Tunick, Inc., New York.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1981; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Vallotton & Goerg 169
Exhibited
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1850-1900, 1983-84, n. 52
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Prints of 5 Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, 1990-91, p. 189, n. 177.

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