The Yellow Evening
c. 1904
Medium
color aquatint
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Henry Ott-Hansen in memory of Anne Buckley Ott-Hansen
Accession Number
2003.51
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About this artwork
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.
About the Artist
Georges Godin (French)
Georges Hugnet (1906–1974) was a multifaceted French artist, poet, writer, and critic whose innovative collages and graphic works bridged Dada and Surrealism. Born in Paris on July 11, 1906, he spent much of his early childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, returning to France around 1913. His early life and artistic training remain sparsely documented, with no records of formal art school attendanc...