Mar 31, 2006

Woman in a Striped Dress

Landscapes

Woman in a Striped Dress

c. 1900

Ker Xavier Roussel

(French, 1867–1944)

printer

Auguste Clot

(French, 1858–1936)

publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)

Color lithograph

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1944.431

Catalogue raisonné: Salomon 16

Location

Did you know?

Ker Xavier Roussel married Marie Vuillard, the sister of painter and fellow Nabi artist Édouard Vuillard.

Description

Almost indistinguishable from the patterned landscape surrounding her, a woman in a striped dress strolls through a spring landscape. In this image, Ker Xavier Roussel explored a decorative abstraction that blended figure and ground into a field of shared color.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Lithograph
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print

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