![]() One of the paintings which he made as a result of that is Verdun (1917). In 1917, Vallotton was commissioned as a War Artist to tour and paint the front line in Champagne, in the north-east of France. Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), Verdun (1917), oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm, Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Vallotton returned to making woodcut prints, which he assembled into his last print series titled This is War. Landscape of Ruins and Fires from 1915 captures the utter destruction on the ground and surrealist displays in the sky. But where are those farmworkers, whose rakes rest against the sheaves, and whose lunch-basket sits on the ground ready to be eaten? Where is the wagon collecting the harvest, and why is the white gate in the distance closed? Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), Landscape of Ruins and Fires (1915), oil on canvas, 115.2 x 147 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland. It’s late summer, harvest time, and the ripe corn is being cut and stacked in sheaves. Vallotton’s The Sheaves from 1915 is one of his moving and symbolic images of the Great War. Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), The Sheaves (1915), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Private collection. ![]() ![]() He volunteered for the army, although at this time he was almost fifty and was rejected because of that. At the outbreak of war in 1914, the former Nabi painter and print-maker Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) had turned to painting unusual landscapes showing transient atmospheric effects like fog, with the simplification of a print. ![]()
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