Maurin also introduced Vallotton to the haunts of Montmartre-the cafés and cabarets such as Le Chat Noir, where he met artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
While at the Académie Julian, Vallotton had become friends with and protégè of artist and printmaker Charles Maurin, who introduced him to the art of woodcut. In 1889 Vallotton exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris as the representative from Switzerland and won honourable mention for the same portrait.Ĭan You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists? He exhibited publicly for the first time in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français-the oil painting Portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, the subject of which was an American mathematician and neighbour of the artist. He took the opportunity to study graphic arts- lithography and other methods of printmaking. Though he was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, he chose to attend the less traditional Académie Julian, where he studied with French painters Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger and enjoyed virtually free rein over his pursuits. After completing secondary school, he left Lausanne in 1882 for Paris to pursue art studies. Vallotton was raised in a traditional bourgeois and Protestant household.
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