The Crowd

Félix Vallotton was associated with the Nabis, a group of young French painters influenced by Gauguin and the Symbolist movement in the last decade of the 19th century. Among his colleagues were Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, who often overshadowed the more elusive Vallotton. Among his strongest works is an early series of small paintings and woodcuts he produced in the 1890s when he was looking to Gauguin for aesthetic leadership. The series was made up largely of street scenes and interiors with figures, all executed with poster-like colors, flat shapes and unexpected perspectives common to the Parisian art scene at the time.