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Bastille Day

1892

Maurice Prendergast

(American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
Culture
America
Medium
color monotype
Support
Cream laid paper
Measurements
Image: 17.4 x 13.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.); Platemark: 25.5 x 20 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 24.8 cm (12 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1954.337
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This print is one of the few works that can be dated to Maurice Prendergast's early years in Paris.

Description

Maurice Prendergast began to make monotypes in the early 1890s while living in Paris, where he was influenced by Edgar Degas's use of the technique. Prendergast focused on scenes from daily life, such as this depiction of crowds filling the streets of the French capital on the country's national holiday. He used layers of blue and black ink to evoke the shadowy tones of nighttime and orbs of bright pink to suggest the artificial light of lanterns illuminating the boulevards.
A vertically oriented print depicts a nighttime scene filled with people standing in a street lined with trees. The print is in deep shades of blue, green, and brown. There are bright orbs of light among the gestural trees.

Bastille Day

1892

Maurice Prendergast

(American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
America

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