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LOUIS VALTAT La Critique.
Color lithograph printed in blue, 1896. 570x450 mm; 22 1/2x17 3/4 inches, wide margins. A very good impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
The magazine La Critique, founded in 1895, was a leading avant-garde publication that covered politics, theatre, music and the wider art scene in Paris. In 1888, Valtat (1869-1952) studied at the Académie Julian with Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Éduoard Vuillard (1868-1940), and both influenced Valtat's work. In 1895 he worked with Toulouse-Lautrec and Albert André on the stage designs for La Chariot de Terre Cuite. Valtat ultimately settled in the south of France and became a prominent founding member, along with Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and others, of the Fauvist movement.
