The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

The Yellow Evening

The Yellow Evening

c. 1904
(French)
France, early 20th century
color aquatint
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.)
Gift of Henry Ott-Hansen in memory of Anne Buckley Ott-Hansen 2003.51
Location: not on view

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.
  • [Paul Prouté, Paris]; [Eric Carlson]
  • Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.
  • {{cite web|title=The Yellow Evening |url=false|author=Georges Godin|year=c. 1904|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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