Louis Valtat (August 8, 1869, – 1952) was born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime. He was a French painter associated with the Fauves. He is famous as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse. He is considered one of the founders and leaders of les Fauves (“the wild beasts”, named after their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d’Automne. Learn more »

Paintings by Louis Valtat in Chronological Order

A Tree in the Garden, 1896	Young Women in the Garden, c.1898	The Boat, 1899
Flowers and Fruit, 1899	Violet Cliffs, 1900	Italian Landscape, 1902
Italian Landscape, Cypresses, 1902	Woman in a wheelchair, 1903	Landscape with Violet Irises, 1903
By the Sea, 1904	Barges on the Seine, 1905	Woman with guitar, 1906
The Lacemaker, 1906	Antheor Bay, 1906	Landscape of the South of France, c.1908
Sun Through the Trees, c.1909	Child with Trumpet, 1910	An Abandoned Farm, 1912
Flowers, 1913	Field of Corn, 1917	River banks in Choisel
Woman at the Seaside	Flowers Still Life	In the Garden, Versailles
The Rock in the Sea