Louis Valtat — Dahlias | Fauvist Still Life Print

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Louis Valtat — Dahlias | Fauvist Still Life PrintLouis Valtat (18691952) was a French painter who anticipated Fauvism before the term existed producing works of bold colour, unmodulated surfaces, and expressive brushwork in the 1890s that predated the Fauvist explosion of 1905 by nearly a decade. A friend of Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec, and Matisse, he was championed by the dealer Ambroise Vollard and exhibited at the Salon des Indpendants. His still lifes, seascapes, and street scenes are among the

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