Two Bouquets with Daffodils, Snowdrops, Daisies, and Pansies

Alternate TitlePots de Fleurs

Artist Louis Valtat (French, 1869 - 1952)

Dateca. 1927

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 18 × 21 3/4 inches (45.72 × 55.25 cm)
Framed: 26 1/4 × 29 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (66.68 × 75.57 × 6.35 cm)

Credit LineGift of Min-Hwan and Yu-Fan Kao

Object number2021.16.3

SignedSigned lower right: L. Valtat

On View

On view

Gallery Location

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European Art

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DescriptionHorizontal format painting featuring two small vases with boquets of flowers against a dark background. On the left is an arrangement in a red vase with handle of yellow daffodils and delicate white snowdrops. In the right foreground is a shorter orange vase with matching handle that is filled with red and white flowers. There are loose multi-colored pansies strewen about on the table.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

[None known at this time.]

Gallery Label

In 1924, Louis Valtat bought a house in Choisel, a small village in the Vallée de Chevreuse, a little southwest of Paris. His garden, and the flowers and fruit that he grew, became the main source of inspiration for his paintings, likely including this expressive still life. Valtat’s vibrant paintings live somewhere between Impressionism, with its emphasis on the shifting light and atmosphere, and Fauvism, a style characterized by bold colors and energetic brushwork.

Provenance

Purchased at Art Modernes, Estampes Contemporaines, Art Abstrait et Contemporain, Artcurial, Hôtel Marcel Dassault, Paris, July 7, 2004, lot 96, as Nature Morte aux Pots de Fleurs, 2004;

With a dealer, London;

Purchased from the dealer by a private collector, California;

Consigned by them to Anderson Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, stock no. K1421, as Pots de Fleurs, by January or February 2006–April 5, 2006 [1];

Purchased from Anderson Galleries by Min-Hwan and Yu-Fan Kao, Leawood, KS, April 6, 2006–June 11, 2021;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2021.

NOTES

[1] See correspondence from Kevin Zweyer Anderson, Anderson Galleries, to Meghan Gray, NAMA, March 3, 2021, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Possibly Ministère du commerce et de l’industrie, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris, avril-octobre 1925: catalogue général officiel. (Paris: [Vaugirard], 1925).

Possibly L. Valtat, 1869–1952, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel, November 6–December 5, 1953).

Possibly George Besson, Louis Valtat 1869-1952: Du Mardi 7 Au Mercredi 22 Avril 1959, exh. cat. (Paris: Impr. Union, 1959).

Possibly Paintings by Louis Valtat, November 19–December 22, 1962, exh. cat. (New York: Acquavella Galleries 1962).

Possibly La Fleur En Images: Exposition Organisée Par Le Musée Des Beaux-Arts, La Bibliothèque Municipale, Le Museum D’histoire Naturelle, Les Galeries D'art De Nantes, exh. cat. (Nantes: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1963).

Possibly Tableaux modernes et sculptures, art nouveau, art déco; dessins et tableaux anciens, argenterie ancienne, objets d'art et de bel ameublement, tapisseries, tapis (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, November 27, 1992).

Art Modernes, Estampes Contemporaines, Art Abstrait et Contemporain (Paris: Artcurial, July 7, 2004), 21, as Nature Morte aux Pots de Fleurs. Lot 96.

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