Winding River, 1890
Edgar Degasexpand_more
Oil monotype and pastel on heavy paper; laid down on paper-wrapped millboardexpand_more
The John R. Van Derlip Fundexpand_more 2009.19.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
Winding River is simultaneously a landscape and an abstraction. Colorful and poetic, it recalls Impressionism but was certainly not painted directly from nature. Rather, Edgar Degas relied on imagination and perhaps also memory, loosely basing this monotype on a Japanese color print made in 1856 by Utagawa Hiroshige, whose work Degas collected. As with many of the nearly fifty landscape monotypes he produced from 1890 onward, Degas began this work by painting in dilute oils on a smooth copper plate, then used a printing press to transfer the image to paper. Continuing to experiment, he turned to drawing and augmented the picture with pastel crayon.
Details
- Title
- Winding River
- Artist Life
- 1834 - 1917
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2009.19.1
- Provenance
- Estate of the artist, Lugt 658 (until 1919; his sale, 4th sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, no. 42, for Fr 2,310, to Cottevieille); Collection Cottevieille, Paris. Sale, Hôtel George V, Paris, June 18, 1974, no. 1. Private collection, Paris. [C.G. Boerner, New York, and Galerie Terrades, Paris, by 2008-9; sold to MIA]
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Lemoisne no. 1050; Janis 287
- Curator Approved
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