"La Coupe de fruits" by Louis Valtat is an oil on board painting that exemplifies the artist's Post Impressionist approach to still life composition. The work demonstrates Valtat's characteristic use of vibrant color and loose brushwork to capture the sensuous qualities of fruit arranged in a bowl or vessel. As a member of the Fauvist circle in early twentieth century Paris, Valtat infuses this intimate domestic subject with the expressive chromatic intensity and painterly freedom that defined modern French painting of the period.