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Louis Valtat (1869 -1952)

Young Woman
Watercolor on paper, approx. 5" x 3",
signed lower right

A founder of the Fauvist movement in France, Valtat studied in Versailes and the Ecole des Beaux with Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, and Benjamin Constant. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Sutomne and the Salon des Artistes Independants. His works are in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and many more throughout the world.