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Félix Vallotton, in full Félix Edouard Vallotton (born December 28, 1865, Lausanne, Switzerland - died December 28, 1925, Paris, France), Swiss-born French graphic artist and painter known for his paintings of nudes and interiors, and for his distinctive woodcuts.

Vallotton was raised in a traditional bourgeois and Protestant household.

Felix Vallotton.

Felix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet.

Title: Gabrielle Vallotton.

The Ball is one of the best known paintings by Félix Vallotton, a Swiss painter who was in close touch with the Nabis from

Félix Vallotton was a major figure of the French avant-garde group Les Nabis.

After completing secondary school, he left Lausanne in 1882 for Paris to pursue art studies. Though he was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, he chose to attend the less traditional Académie Julian, where he studied with French painters Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger and enjoyed virtually free rein over his pursuits.

He took the opportunity to study graphic arts' lithography and other methods of printmaking. He exhibited publicly for the first time in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français an oil painting called Portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, the subject of which was an American mathematician and neigh