Louis VALTAT was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, born in Dieppe in 1869 and died in Paris in 1952.
He entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1886 and completed his training at the Académie Julian (1886-1888). He befriended Albert André, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, all of whom had an influence on his work, which was initially oriented towards pointillism..
Stricken with tuberculosis, he went south for treatment, visiting Spain before continuing his convalescence in Arcachon. He produced a number of paintings, often vigorous and vivid in tone, that already heralded the Fauvism ,ten years earlier. Van Gogh's influence is also strong. Renoir admired his work and introduced him to the art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
He painted portraits, landscapes and still lifes, either in Paris, where he kept a studio all his life, or in his places of residence at the foot of the Esterel, in Normandy or in the Chevreuse valley.
Louis Valtat is represented in numerous museums in France, Switzerland, Florida and Russia. A fine exhibition was devoted to him at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999.
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