Félix Vallotton Auction Prices and Value Guide

Félix Vallotton auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,583 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Félix Vallotton auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Félix Vallotton
Source records
1,583
Market update
2026-02-16

Artist context

About Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-born painter and printmaker who became a naturalized French citizen in 1900. Born in Lausanne, he moved to Paris in the 1880s and joined the avant-garde group Les Nabis, alongside Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Vallotton played a pivotal role in reviving the woodcut as a modern art form, producing stark, graphic prints that influenced later printmakers and graphic designers. His paintings span portraits, landscapes, nudes, and still lifes, often rendered in a cool, detached realist style that set him apart from his Nabis contemporaries. Today his work is held by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Rijksmuseum, and he remains a significant figure in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European art.

Les NabisPost-ImpressionismOil paintingWoodcut / wood-engravingEtchingDrawingPortraitsLandscapesNudesStill lifes

Common works and media

Vallotton's output includes oil paintings on canvas and panel, color woodcuts, black-and-white woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, drawings in pencil and ink, gouaches, and occasional sculptures. Recurring subjects are domestic interiors, female nudes, bourgeois portraiture, landscapes of France and Switzerland, still lifes with flowers or fruit, and allegorical or narrative scenes. His woodcut prints, produced mainly in the 1890s, are a distinct and widely collected category, often appearing as individual impressions or small series.

Market and appraisal context

Félix Vallotton commands a deep and internationally dispersed auction market spanning more than two decades of recorded sales. Appraisily auction records index 655 lots with 459 carrying realized prices, ranging from €40 for minor prints and works on paper to CHF 3,670,000 for major oil paintings. The median price sits at approximately $5,000, indicating that mid-tier works—typically woodcuts, drawings, and smaller paintings—are accessible to a broad collector base, while the 75th percentile at $67,000 and a ceiling near $3.7 million reflect strong demand for important oils, especially nudes, landscapes, and portraits from Vallotton's mature period. Liquidity is robust: 32 lots appeared in the most recent 12 months and 69 in the prior 12-month window, with consistent representation at top-tier houses including Christie's, Sotheby's, and Artcurial alongside specialist Swiss firms such as Koller Auctions, Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG, and Piguet Hôtel des Ventes. The price distribution is wide and skewed by medium—oil paintings dominate the upper tier, while woodcuts from the celebrated 1890s series (notably Intimités) and unsigned or later impressions trade in the low hundreds to mid-thousands. This dispersion makes medium, date, and edition identification critical for any appraisal.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Oil painting
  • Woodcut / wood-engraving
  • Etching
  • Drawing
  • Gouache

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • With 1,583 recorded auction appearances, Vallotton is a well-represented artist at auction, but value ranges vary widely by medium, size, date, and subject.
  • Major auction-house catalogue entries and condition reports should be consulted for specific lot valuation.
  • The source pack did not include auction-house result pages; specific realized-price data should be verified through Appraisily or Invaluable records.
  • The price distribution spans $40 to $3,670,000; no single 'typical' value exists for Vallotton. Any estimate must be medium- and lot-specific.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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Data basis

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Artist value FAQ

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