The Yellow Evening (c. 1904): Art, History and Details

The Yellow Evening (c. 1904) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Georges Godin (French).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: The Yellow Evening
• Date: c. 1904
• Creator attribution: Georges Godin (French)
• Culture: France, early 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color aquatint
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: PR - Aquatint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2003.51

Collection credit

Gift of Henry Ott-Hansen in memory of Anne Buckley Ott-Hansen

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