Louis Valtat

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Style: Fauvism;

Place: Dieppe

Born: 1869

Death: 1952

Biography:

Louis Valtat (French: [valta] 8 August 1869 – 2 January 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves ("the wild beasts", so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse. Louis Valtat w...

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