

Curatorial Narrative Flix Vallotton’s “Les Fauteuils, Varengeville” of 1904 occupies a pivotal position within the trajectory of early-twentieth-century modernism. The artist’s characteristic Impressionist idiom is here recalibrated to accommodate a more deliberate, almost painterly, treatment of light and atmosphere. Note the impasto brushwork that imbues the canvas with an almost tactile presence, as if the landscape itself were unfolding beneath the viewer’s fingertips. The interplay between green foliage and the rough-hewn wooden armchairs assumes a quiet, almost abstracted, quality, suggestive of the modernist interest in elemental forms and their relationship to the natural world.Upon enlargement to 53×44 inches, the palette of Vallotton’s painting takes on a heightened sense of spatial rhythm, its chromatic structure unfolding like a carefully composed musical phrase. The dominant greens assume an almost architectural presenc
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