Les fils de fer (Barbed Wire), plate 3 from the portfolio C'est la guerre! (This is War!)
Félix Vallotton, Les fils de fer (Barbed Wire), plate 3 from the portfolio C'est la guerre! (This is War!), 1916, woodcut on wove paper, Gift of Tom Firman, public domain, 2013.50.1d
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- Title
Les fils de fer (Barbed Wire), plate 3 from the portfolio C'est la guerre! (This is War!)
- Related Titles
original language: Les fils de fer
portfolio (original language): C'est la guerre!
portfolio (translated): This is War!
translated: Barbed Wire
- Artist
- Date
1916
- Medium
woodcut on wove paper
- Edition
86/90
- Catalogue Raisonné
Vallotton-Goerg 214b
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 6 15/16 in x 8 7/8 in; sheet: 9 7/8 in x 13 1/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: f.vallotton, LR
edition information: 86/90, LL
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Swiss
- Credit Line
Gift of Tom Firman
- Accession Number
2013.50.1d
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
In the 1890s, Félix Vallotton achieved fame with his stylish woodcuts of Parisian life. He deployed the same elegant touch and extreme simplicity in scenes of brutal war, using a graceful arabesque line to describe scenes of violence and horror.
- Exhibitions
2014 This is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War Portland Art Museum
