Félix Vallotton
À Edgar Poe
1893
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Félix Vallotton
À Edgar Poe
1893
Physical Qualities
Woodcut, Sheet: 328 × 252 mm. (12 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Image: 160 × 124 mm. (6 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.375
During the 1890s, Félix Vallotton created original portraits of the artists, writers, and musicians whom he admired. Here he intensified Poe’s image by eliminating detail. Flat, black-and-white shapes suggest the despondency and weariness that marked the writer’s face during his final years.
Haunting Visions of Poe: Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems
Dialogues: Words and Images in Art, 1500 - 1924
Exhibition booklet "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems (September 8 - November 15, 2012)," illustrated on back cover
'Edgar Allan Poe,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 8-9, ill. pp. 3 and back-cover (details) and 8.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "FVallotton"; lower right in block: "FV"; center in block: "A EDGAR POE"
