3038 - EDOUARD VALLET

EDOUARD VALLET (Geneva 1876–1929 Cressy) Piliers. 1919. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left: ED. VAllET 1919. 38 × 46 cm. Provenance: - Heirs of Edouard Vallet, Confignon, received directly from the artist. - Private collection, Léopold Rey, Sion. - Private collection, Albert Chavaz, Savièse. - Galerie L’Antica, Sion. - Private collection, Switzerland. Exhibited: - Zurich 1929, Edouard Vallet Memorial Exhibition, Kunsthaus Zürich, August 25–September 22, 1929, no. 85, as “Mauerpfeiler.” - Sion 1954, Edouard Vallet Exhibition, Musée de la Majorie, June 25–September 27, 1954, no. 50, as “Piliers.” - Vercorin 1992, Exhibition at the Centre Fontany, July 12–September 20, 1992, listed as “Piliers.” - Vercorin 2015, *Présences. Edouard Vallet et Vercorin*. With commentary by Eric Philippoz, Fondation Edouard Vallet, July 12–September 13, 2015, as “Piliers.” Bibliography: - Exhibition catalog: “Exposition Edouard Vallet,” Sion 1954, no. 50. - Bernard Wyder and Jacques Dominique Rouiller: *Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint d’Edouard Vallet*, Geneva 2006, p. 537, no. 423 (ill. p. 414). - Exhibition catalog *Présences. Edouard Vallet et Vercorin. Avec le regard d’Eric Philippoz*, Vercorin 2015, p. 29 (ill.).