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Road at St Paul Var
Presented by Paul Vallotton, the artist's brother 1927
adults
architecture
chapel
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
France
hill
landscape
people
places
religious
road
Saint-Paul
townscapes / man-made features
village
wall
woman
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
2018-06-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-06-05
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
Exhibition
Road at St Paul (Var)
support: 806 × 645 mm
Presented by Paul Vallotton, the artist's brother 1927
<p><b>Félix Vallotton</b> 1865-1925</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/vallotton-road-at-st-paul-var-n04232" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04232</span></a> <b>Route à St Paul (Var)</b> (Road at St Paul (Var)) 1922</p>
<p>Inscribed 'F. VALLOTTON. 22' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 25 3/8 (80.5 x 64.5) 
<br/>Presented by Paul Vallotton, the artist's brother, 1927 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Paul Vallotton, Lausanne (bequest from the artist) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, <i>Félix Vallotton et ses Amis</i> (Paris 1936), No.1386, p.325, repr. pl.120 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: Edwin Fagg, <i>Modern French Masters</i> (London 1930), facing p.100</p>
<p>This picture appears as No.1386 in the catalogue compiled by the artist himself, where it is described as follows: 'An old road at Saint-Paul, at the top a little chapel, on the left a low wall against which a woman is leaning'. It is the seventeenth item in the list of fifty-four <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> made in 1922, and was therefore probably painted in the spring.</p>
<p>St Paul is only a short distance from Cagnes, where Vallotton spent the winter months from 1921 onwards and where he executed a number of similar <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.741, reproduced p.741</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults architecture chapel cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France hill landscape people places religious road Saint-Paul townscapes / man-made features village wall woman wooded