Composition, Green
1950
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View on museum website →Medium
ink and gouache over a reproduction?
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 25.2 cm (12 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1804
Art Historical Context
**Discover Simon Hantaï's *Composition, Green* (1950)** Created in the vibrant post-World War II art scene of Paris, where Simon Hantaï—a Hungarian-born artist who settled in France in 1948—was forging his early abstract style, *Composition, Green* exemplifies mid-20th-century experimentation. This drawing, measuring 30.5 x 25.2 cm (12 x 9 15/16 in.), employs ink and gouache layered a printed reproduction, a technique that blends mechanical reproduction with handmade marks. The result is a dynamic interplay of color and form, with green dominating to evoke organic energy amid gestural abstrac...