Born on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1865, Felix Vallotton moved to Paris and joined a Avant group of painters called the Nabis (or which there will a post in the future) and from then on mixed his Classical Realism technique with a modern obsession with simplification of lines and the games light plays on the retina.

Annie Vallotton is his grand-niece. She is in some respect the biggest selling artist of all times as she illustrated the Good News Bible (225 millions copies sold).

The landscapes of Normandy in North-West France inspired Vallotton these images:

:By Félix Vallotton – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15690926

By Félix Vallotton – http://lakevio.canalblog.com/archives/2013/10/31/28308989.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54539243

Par Félix Vallotton — Collection du Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110919493

Par Félix Vallotton — Travail personnel, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30471750