Landscape

Edgar Degas French

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Degas undertook a series of landscape monotypes during a visit in October 1890 to the Burgundian estate of his friend, the artist Pierre-Georges Jeanniot. Over the course of the next two years, he made about fifty monotypes, a group of which he exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1892. Although the artist called these views "imaginary landscapes," the present work is thought to reflect his experience traveling through Burgundy in a horse-drawn carriage. Using colored oil paints, overlaid with scumbled pastels, Degas produced a view of a mountainous landscape, partially obscured by mist, which verges on abstraction.

Landscape, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel

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Landscape, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel
Landscape, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel

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