Head of an Old Woman (Tête de vieille femme)

1891 (reproduction), after 1925 (posthumous edition), Félix Vallotton (1865 - 1925)

woodcut in black on Japan paper, 24.5 cm x 20.9 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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Object data

Object number
p1475V2000
Edition
25/25, 3rd state of 4, posthumous
Dimensions
24.5 cm x 20.9 cm, 13 cm x 10.3 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Godefroy 78, Vallotton & Goerg 79c

Inscription/label

monogram
FV by Vallotton, Félix
monogram
by Atelier F. Vallotton, Lugt no. 1051a
number
25/25
number
12 l
blind embossing
by Atelier F. Vallotton, Lugt no. 2478b

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. 96
  • Sasha M. Newman ; with essays by Marina Ducrey...[et al.] ; ed. by Lesley K. Baier, Felix Vallotton, 1991, p. 46
  • The Vallotton collection : prints and preparatory drawings = The Vallotton collection : gravures et dessins préparatoires, 1997, p. 16
  • Le très singulier Vallotton, 2001, p. 52
  • Jacquelynn Baas, Richard S. Field, The artistic revival of the woodcut in France : 1850-1900, 1984, p. 86-87
  • Marina Ducrey, Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Nienke Bakker ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton : het vuur onder het ijs, 2013, p. 65
  • Marina Ducrey, Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Nienke Bakker ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton : fire beneath the ice, 2013, p. 65
  • Marina Ducrey, Guy Cogeval , Katia Poletti ... [et al.], Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) : le feu sous la glace, 2014, p. 65