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The Yellow Evening

c. 1904

Georges Godin

(French)
Culture
France, early 20th century
Medium
color aquatint
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 24 x 32.6 cm (9 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.); Platemark: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry Ott-Hansen in memory of Anne Buckley Ott-Hansen 2003.51
Impression
5
Public Domain
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Location
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Description

At the end of the 19th century, Godin made a small group of luminous color landscapes in aquatint which verge upon the abstract. Moody and evocative, this landscape is suggestive rather than descriptive of any precise locale. Flat passages of deep green and brilliant yellow reveal the influence of Japanese color woodcuts, beloved by French artists of the period. In both subject and technique, The Yellow Evening is a quintessential fin-de-siècle vision of the landscape.
A horizontal color aquatint depicts a landscape where deep green and blue-black ground slopes upward on the left. In the lower half, dark tree silhouettes cluster to the right against a vibrant yellow horizon. In the upper half, the sky is layered in soft streaks of muted pink and purple, fading into pale green at the top. The scene is enclosed by a thin green border and white margins featuring faint pencil inscriptions.

The Yellow Evening

c. 1904

Georges Godin

(French)
France, early 20th century

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