In 1891 he created his first woodcut, a portrait of Paul Verlaine. In 1890 he also contributed art reviews to the Gazette de Lausanne, he continued to write until 1897. To make ends meet, the artist started to sell prints of drawings he had made after Rembrandt and Jean-François Millet. Maurin also introduced Vallotton to the haunts of Montmartre, such cafés and cabarets as Le Chat Noir, where he met artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Vallotton was a friend and protégè of artist and printmaker Charles Maurin, who introduced him to the art of woodcut. In the following decade, Félix Vallotton painted, wrote art criticism, and produced a number of prints. In 1889 Félix Vallotton exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris as the representative from Switzerland and won an honourable mention for the same portrait. Vallotton exhibited publicly for the first time in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français presenting the oil painting, Portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, as well as his first created self-portrait, which received an honourable mention at the Salon in 1886.
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