The Lie

Vallotton reached the highest point with his woodcuts in 1898 when he produced a series of ten woodcuts entitled Intimités (Intimacies), for the La Revue blanche, the French avant-garde art and literary magazine. This magazine was very important – it was published between 1889 and 1903 and had many influential contributors such as Toulouse-Lautrec. The Intimités shows the tensions between men and women. It became so successful that it circulated in magazines and books all over Europe and the United States.