Cleveland Museum of Art

The Yellow Evening

Georges Godin

Date

c. 1904

Medium

color aquatint

Culture

France, early 20th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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