Félix Vallotton
To Edgar Poe
1894
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.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Portraits in Prints," 19 October - 11 December, 1977.
BMA, "Felix Vallotton, 1865 - 1924," 10 January - 31 August, 1978.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Doreen Bolger, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin," Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Brandywine River Museum, "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems," September 8 2012 - November 15 2012.
The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, "Dialogues: Words and Images in Art, 1500-1924," January 31, 2014 - April 06,2014.
BMA, "Felix Vallotton, 1865 - 1924," 10 January - 31 August, 1978.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Doreen Bolger, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin," Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Brandywine River Museum, "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems," September 8 2012 - November 15 2012.
The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, "Dialogues: Words and Images in Art, 1500-1924," January 31, 2014 - April 06,2014.
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"
