Fact sheet
Raphy Dallèves · Sion, 1878–1940
The reference
The contemporary of cubism who chose the Quattrocento.
For institutions and the press
Raphy Dallèves (1878-1940) was a Valais painter of the École de Savièse. Trained in Paris, he devoted his work to the peasant world of the Val d'Hérens, painting it in tempera in a language drawn from the Italian Quattrocento primitives. The art historian Frédéric Elsig called him "a modern primitive." On his death, his bequest became the founding core of what is now the Musée d'art du Valais.
Fact sheet
- Born
- 26.01.1878, Sion
- Died
- 06.07.1940, Sion
- Movement
- École de Savièse
- Training
- Académie Julian; École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1899-1905)
- Media
- Tempera, oil, watercolour, pencil, gold leaf
- Recognition
- Associate, Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1913)
- Collections
- Musée d'art du Valais, City of Sion, Kunsthaus Aarau, Swiss National Museum
- Monograph
- F. Elsig, Un primitif moderne, Éditions du Verseau, 1999
- Anniversary
- 150th anniversary of his birth in 2028
High-resolution images
Public domain (artist died 1940). Credit: "Raphy Dallèves, after Elsig 1999." Click to download.
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