Part of the Nabis movement in France at the tail end of the 19th century, Felix Vallotton is a painter with an uncanny ability to convey the shocking eclipse of nostalgia and symbolic romanticism. The gaze of a subjects eyes can cause a temporary paralysis of the soul with a sense of a magnetic, almost gripping fascination. Dancing nudes with feet barely submerged in light waves at the edge of an amber beach or the artist’s own melancholic portrait makes you feel almost weightless in a somnambulistic age of lost memory. Bravo Vallotton. Bravo!
