Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009501Corn Fields
About the Artwork
With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky.
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right (twice): F. VALLOTTON. 00
Provenance
by 1928: (Galerie Jacques-Rodrigues-Henriques [1886-1968], Paris, France) 1945–?: Mme Debrise, Paris, France 1988–?: (Galerie Vallotton, no. 13179, Lausanne, Switzerland) May 27, 2008: (Sotheby's, Zurich, Switzerland, May 27, 2008, lot 38, sold to Samuel Josefovitz) 2008–?: Samuel Josefovitz [1921-2015], Lausanne, Switzerland, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley 2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.115
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