First Rays

The 20 most looked-at works by Félix Vallotton

1. 1 Die Sitzende Frau Nüde, 1897 6,2%
2. 2 Still life in Chinese painting, 1925 2,8%
3. 3 Das Pokerspiel, 1902 2,8%
4. 4 Femme lisant La femme aux seins nus (Titre attribué) 2,8%
5. 5 Flowers and Strawberries, 1920 2,4%
6. 6 Portrait of French writer Marcel Boulenger, 1899 2,4%
7. 7 Madame Vallotton und ihre Nichte, Germaine Aghion, 1889 1,9%
8. 8 The Toilet, 1905 1,9%
9. 9 Sunset 1,9%
10. 10 Landscape at Sunset, 1919 1,9%
11. 11 Portrait of French poet Laurent Tailhade, 1896 1,9%
12. 12 Laid down woman, sleeping, 1899 1,4%
13. 13 White and Black, 1913 1,4%
14. 14 Woman being capped, 1900 1,4%
15. 15 Château Gaillard bei Les Andelys, 1924 1,4%
16. 16 Baden an einem Sommerabend, 1893 1,4%
17. 17 Woman Searching through a Cupboard, 1901 1,4%
18. 18 At the Cafe (also known as The Provincial), 1909 1,4%
19. 19 Solitaire (also known as Nude Playing Cards), 1912 1,4%
20. 20 First Rays, 1921 this painting 1,4%

Together these works take 41,5% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 370 works by this artist, of which 121 were looked at at least once. This painting ranks 20 of them, with 1,4% of that attention.

Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.