Description

Type: paintings

Painter: Félix Vallotton (* 1865, † 1925)

Object: woodcut

Material: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: height: 14.3 cm, width: 9.6 cm

Manufacture year: probably 1922

Condition: partly creased and some tears, paper browned, partly inscribed on the reverse

Signature: FV, monogrammed

Details:
This is a woodcut by the Swiss painter Félix Vallotton with a portrait of Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin in Art Nouveau style. The woodcut was printed on an advertising card for the magazine “Die Aktion”, which advertises the book “Marx and Bakunin” by the author Fritz Brupbacher, published by “Die Aktion” in 1922. Therefore, the advertising card itself probably dates from 1922. The advertising card did not go through the post office.

The original plate of the Bakunin woodcut by Félix Vallotton dates from 1895 and was printed that year in the literary-artistic magazine “La Revue blanche“.