One Work: Félix Vallotton’s “Intimacies”

Active among the late nineteenth-century French Intimists, Swiss-born Félix Vallotton worked as an illustrator for Parisian journals such as the anarchist Les Temps Nouveaux. His art adds some startling intrigue to “Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis” at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon; as his fellow painter-printmakers Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and Édouard Vuillard celebrated their own mothers, babies, and wives in bourgeois interiors and gar