Shchekatikhin N. N. Felix Valloton.

Shchekatikhin N. N. Felix Valloton.
[M.] Alcyone, [1918]. - 112 p. Solid modern owner's binding with the publisher's cover preserved; enlarged format (19 x 27 cm). The cover is dirty, the marks of second-hand stores on the back of the cover; pages 96-97 are damaged (glue mark on the 96th, tear on the 97th), otherwise the block is in excellent condition.

Series: Masters of new graphics.

[Félix Vallotton( 28 December 1865, Lausanne — 29 December 1925, Paris) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. Has become widely popular for its wood engraving.

He was close to the group "Nabi" (Bonnard, Maurice Denis, etc.) and Odilon Redon. In 1896, a publishing house in Paris published Vallotton's collection "Women's studies", and in 1898 his collection" the hidden "appeared, combining 10 woodcuts that were originally printed in the"Revue Blanche". In the 1900s, his exhibitions were triumphantly held in Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Prague, London, Stockholm, he exhibited in the Russian Empire (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa), the Netherlands (Amsterdam).

In 1895-1901, he performed for the Parisian magazines plume and Revue Blanche a series of engraved portraits of writers and political figures of the XIX century.from Herzen, Bakunin, Tolstoy to Claudel, verharn and Schwob. Many of them were included as illustrations in the collection of literary portraits of Remy de Gourmont "Book of masks" (1898).]