A Game of Poker (Le poker)

1896, Félix Vallotton (1865 - 1925)

woodcut in black on Japan paper, 25.3 cm x 31.1 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

What is it?
What can you see?
Context
printmaker

Object data

Object number
p1498V2000
Edition
6/25, 3rd state of 4, posthumous
Dimensions
25.3 cm x 31.1 cm, 17.9 cm x 22.4 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Godefroy 168, Vallotton & Goerg 170c

Inscription/label

monogram
FV by Vallotton, Félix
monogram
by Atelier F. Vallotton, Lugt no. 1051a
inscription
LE POKER by Vallotton, Félix
number
6/25
blind embossing
by Atelier F. Vallotton, Lugt no. 2478b
number
J.168
number
VG 170 62/86 C.2996

Literature

  • Louis Godefroy, L' oeuvre gravé de Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), 1932, [unpaged]
  • Maxime Vallotton, Charles Goerg, Felix Vallotton : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographie = Felix Vallotton : catalogue raisonné of the printed graphic work, 1972, p. 184
  • Foreword by Luc Boissonnas ; introduction by Mary Anne Stevens ; catalogue by Mary Anne Stevens and Ashley St. James, The graphic work of Felix Vallotton 1865-1925, 1976, p. 30-31
  • Le très singulier Vallotton, 2001, p. 50-51, 54
  • par François Fossier, La nébuleuse Nabie : les Nabis et l'art graphique, 1993, p. 226
  • Marina Ducrey, Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Nienke Bakker ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton : het vuur onder het ijs, 2013, p. 107
  • Marina Ducrey, Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Nienke Bakker ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton : fire beneath the ice, 2013, p. 107
  • Marina Ducrey, Guy Cogeval , Katia Poletti ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) : le feu sous la glace, 2014, p. 107