Femme assise sur une Chaise, brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1910. 215x198 mm; 8 1/2x8 inches. With the artist's initials ink stamp, lower right recto (Lugt 1771bis) * Femme avec une coiffe, pen and ink on tan wove paper. 175x152 mm; 7x6 inches. With the artist's initials ink stamp, lower center recto (Lugt 1771bis).
Provenance: (the first) Estate of the artist, Paris; private collection, New York; private collection, Chicago; (the second) Estate of the artist, Paris; private collection, New York; sold Doyle, New York, January, 1984; private collection, New York; private collection, Chicago.
In 1888, Valtat (1869-1952) studied at the Académie Julian with Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), and both of these prominent Nabis artists had an influence on 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.
