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Laziness
Félix Edouard Vallotton (French, born Switzerland, 1865-1925)
1896
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.8 × 22.2 cm (7 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 32.6 cm (10 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In his lifetime Félix Vallotton was perhaps best known for his elegant woodcuts, which he designed, carved, and used to print inventive compositions of both exterior and interior Parisian life. The woodcut, the oldest printmaking technique in Europe, fell out of favor as an artistic practice by the mid-19th century. However, Vallotton revived the method, welcoming the woodcut’s potential to create pure, simplified forms using contrasts of only black and white to suggest pattern, depth, and shape.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
