1901
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You shall conjugate... is a 1901 by Félix Vallotton, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man in a dark suit pointing a gun at a woman who’s already on the floor, blood pooling around her. This isn’t a painting—it’s a woodcut printed in a French magazine in 1902. The sharp black-and-white lines make the scene feel like a newspaper cartoon, but the subject is brutal. Vallotton made it for a series about crime and punishment, showing violence without glamour. Look up more of Félix Vallotton’s woodcuts to see how he turned everyday cruelty into bold, graphic art.
This print was published in the magazine L’Assiette au Beurre (March 1, 1902 ) as plate 17 from the series Crimes and Punishments .
Read the full account in the museum source.
Félix Édouard Vallotton (French: ; December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis.
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