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Louis Valtat

Born : 1869Died : 1952Documented citizenships : France

The French painter and printmaker Louis André Valtat, born in Dieppe in 1869, first attracts attention early in his career with paintings in very vivid tones, made during his convalescence in Arcachon. He studies at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studio of Jules Lefebvre, then at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin-Constant, and makes his debut at the Salon des indépendants in 1889. The following year, he receives the Jauvin d’Attainville Prize and opens his first Paris studio on rue de la Glacière. Shown at the Salon des indépendants in 1896, the Arcachon paintings attract the attention of Félix Fénéon, who discusses them in La Revue blanche.

His illness leads him to stay in Banyuls and Collioure and to make several trips to Spain with George-Daniel de Monfreid, notably to Llançà and Figueras. The Art Institute of Chicago lists among his works In Llansa (Spain), dated circa 1895, and The Lunch, dated 1894–1895. From the winter of 1897–1898, Valtat lives from autumn to spring in Agay, and later in Anthéor, with his wife Suzanne. In 1899, he has a house, Roucas Rou, built there, where he spends a large part of the year until 1914. In March 1899, twenty of his paintings are included in a group exhibition organised by Paul Signac at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, fifteen of them grouped under the title Notations d’Agay. He also takes part in the exhibition of the Fauves at the 1905 Salon d’automne; one of his paintings is reproduced there in L’Illustration alongside works by Manguin, Matisse, Derain and Jean Puy.

In 1907, at Vollard’s request, he makes ceramic pieces in André Metthey’s studio in Asnières-sur-Seine; some are exhibited at the Salon d’automne the same year. Listed works include Port breton, dated 1907 and held at the musée d’Art moderne Richard-Anacréon, and Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard, dated 1908 and held at the musée Léon-Dierx. Based in Paris, at avenue de Wagram, from 1914, Valtat acquires a property in Choisel, in the Chevreuse valley, in 1924. He spends a large part of the year there and paints, in particular, his garden, the flowers and the fruit he grows there. He spends the summer in Brittany. His last paintings date from 1948; he dies in Paris in 1952.

This profile brings together identity references for Louis Valtat and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

37auction references

7auction houses

26documented results with prices

Dobiaschofsky · Koller · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Schuler · Piguet · Genève Enchères · Germann

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

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Piguet

"Fillette courant"

Indian ink on paper

Original catalogue wording

"Fillette courant"
encre de Chine sur papier

Catalogue period : 2026-09-08 — 2026-09-23

Published result : 280 CHF

Fees not specified in the available data

Estimate : CHF 300–500

Louis Valtat

Documented auction references

Works recorded at auction

"Fillette courant"

Voiliers au port

Vue depuis la plage

Vase of flowers

"Les rochers rouges, Anthéor le soir

Barque sur la grève"

Landscape

Le gendarme

"Femmes et enfants au jardin du Luxembourg".

"Église devant un étang en Normandie".

"Promeneuses au bord de l'eau, environs de Paris".

Landscape

"Vase de pensées".

Fleurs, vase à l'oiseau, 1931

Le grand Chêne, um 1900-1901

"Couturière vue de dos avec ruban noir au cou".

"Le petit Jean Valtat dans son berceau".

La Mer de Glace à Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. 1903.

Elegante, circa 1925

Port, les barques, circa 1930

Voiliers au port, circa 1930

"Les raisins"

Le quai des Orfèvres"

Les barques à la marée basse

Nature morte aux pigeons

Jeune femme à la robe rose

Les rochers rouges, 1905

Barques sur la Grève, um 1896

Le port, 1907

Etude de personnages

La sablaise de dos

Nu debout, circa 1892

"La mer"

"Le Bateau-Mouche".

Le quai des Orfèvres"

Madame Valtat et son fils

References excluded from statistics: attributions and special lots

Circle of LOUIS VALTAT — Slender trees in a southern landscape.

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