Le Poker
About this artwork
This is a high-contrast woodcut print featuring five figures seated around a card table, rendered in a bold, simplified graphic style. It is part of the artist's celebrated series of prints known for their stark black-and-white aesthetic.
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Félix Vallotton was a central figure in the Nabis, a group of post-impressionist avant-garde artists in Paris. His woodcuts from the 1890s are legendary for their radical use of flat, unmodulated black ink and stark white negative space, which heavily influenced the development of modern graphic design and comic art.
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Le Poker
Félix Vallotton, 1896
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