books0977:Femme lisant. Félix Edouard Vallotton (Swiss, 1865-1925). Oil on canvas. A young
books0977: Femme lisant. Félix Edouard Vallotton (Swiss, 1865-1925). Oil on canvas. A young woman reading is sitting in an austere bourgeois interior. Vallotton produced several variations of this pattern of women reading with different models. During the 1890s, when Vallotton was closely allied with the avant-garde, his paintings reflected the style of his woodcuts, with flat areas of color, hard edges, and simplification of detail. His subjects included genre scenes, portraits and nudes. -- source link