id: 84370 accession number: 2020.114 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.114 updated: 2025-12-21 05:50:15.466000 The Bistro, c. 1895. Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925). Oil on canvas; unframed: 22.2 x 27 cm (8 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.114 title: The Bistro title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1895 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1900 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 22.2 x 27 cm (8 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature lower left: F. VALLOTTON translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Felix Vallotton 1865-1925. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (1928).', 'opening_date': '1928-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ausstellung Félix Vallotton. Kunsthalle Basel (January 23–February 24, 1957); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (March 8 – April 3, 1957) cat. no. 17 (only exhibited in Basel)', 'opening_date': '1957-02-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Felix Vallotton. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'De Vallotton a Desnos. Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (July 24–October 3, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-10-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Felix Vallotton. Musee national d' Art modern, Paris, France (October 15-November 20, 1966); Palais des beaux-arts, Charleroi, Belgium (December 17, 1966–January 15, 1967).", 'opening_date': '1966-10-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Felix Vallotton (1865-1926), a Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts, and Engravings. Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY (April 7–25, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1926-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Circle of Toulouse-Lautrec, an Exhibition of the Work of the Artist and of his Close Associates. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ (November 17, 1985–February 2, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1985-11-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Felix Vallotton. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (October 24, 1991–January 5, 1991); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (January 31–March 29, 1992); Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (April 25–June 21, 1992); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 27–November 1, 1992); Musee Cantonal des beaux arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1992–January 31, 1993).', 'opening_date': '1991-01-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Felix Vallotton. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (August 25–November 5, 1995); Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (1996).', 'opening_date': '1995-11-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Mme. L. Godet-Druet, Paris, France) date: by 1938 footnotes: *
Included in “Felix Vallotton 1865-1925,” Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1938, cat. no. 18, as “Bar,” Collection Mme. L. Druet, Paris. This may refer to Lucie Druet, wife of gallerist Eugène Druet. 
citations: (Galerie Vallotton, no. 5626, Lausanne, Switzerland) date: 1964 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Vallotton, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul [1920–2002], New York, NY, August 22, 1969) date: August 22, 1969 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Hopkins & Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: June 2003 footnotes: *
Provenance from 1964-2003 is according to documentation provided by Galerie Hopkins-Custot.
citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2003–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Félix Vallotton: Ausstellung, Kunsthaus Zürich, vom 11. November - 14. Dezember [1938] : Katalog mit Einführung, 24 Abbildungen und Werkverzeeichnis 1885-1925. [Zürich]: [Kunsthaus], 1938.

Published as: Bar page number: Mentioned: P. 18, cat. no. 18 url: Kunsthalle Basel. Ausstellung Félix Vallotton, 23. Januar bis 24. Februar 1957. Basel: 1957. page number: Mentioned: Cat. no. 17 url: Félix Vallotton: [Ausstellung] vom 10. April bis 30. Mai, 1965. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1965. page number: Mentioned: P. 67, no. 17 url: Ménier, Marguerite. Vallotton. Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. 15 octobre-20th novembre 1966. Paris, France: Ministère des affaires culturelles [et] Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 15 url: Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) : a retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings, woodcuts, and engravings ... April 7 through 25, 1970. New York, NY. : Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1970. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 27 url: Reff, Theodore. Manet and Modern Paris: One Hundred Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Photographs by Manet and His Contemporaries. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 210, fig. 105 url: Cate, Phillip Dennis, and Patricia Eckert Boyer. The Circle of Toulouse-Lautrec: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist and of His Close Associates : the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 17-February 2, 1986. New Brunswick, NJ.: The Museum, 1985. page number: Mentioned : P. 172, no. 161; Reproduced: pl. 22 url: Newman, Sasha M., Marina Ducrey, and Lesley K. Baier. Félix Vallotton. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1991. page number: Reproduced: P. 20, pl. 14 url: Ducrey, Marina, Katia Poletti, and Félix Vallotton. Félix Vallotton (1865-1925). Lausanne, Switzerland: Fondation Félix Vallotton, 2005. page number: Reproduced: Vol. II, p. 100, no. 185 url: Musée Jenisch, Georges Peillex, and Franco Russoli. De Vallotton à Desnos: exposition organisée. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1965. page number: Mentioned: P. 22, no. XXII url: Amory, Dita. "Felix Vallotton." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 128-131. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128-129; Mentioned: p. 272-273 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.114/2020.114_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.114/2020.114_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.114/2020.114_full.tif