This expressive, enigmatic image exemplifies Degas' statement to his friend Jeanniot: "A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people."
Details
- Artist Name: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
- Title: Autumn Landscape (L'Estérel)
- Date: 1890
- Medium: Monotype in oil colors on heavy cream-colored laid paper
- Dimensions: plate: 11-13/16 x 15-3/4 in. (30 x 40 cm); sheet: 12-1/8 x 16-1/16 in. (30.8 x 40.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Museum Purchase with funds donated by The B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
- Accession Number: P.1968.17
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Maurice Exsteens.
[Galerie Hector Brame, to];
[Cesar de Hauke, Paris, 1958].
Valentine Abdy, Paris.
[L’Oeil Galerie d’art, Paris, 1964].
[E. V. Thaw & Co., New York, 1964].
[Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills,1968].
Pasadena Art Museum;
Norton Simon Museum.
Degas
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1948-09-04 to 1948-09-26
Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 2016-03-01 to 2016-08-05
Edgar Degas 1834-1917: Skulpturer og Monotypier, Tegninger of Malerier
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1948-09-04 to 1948-09-26
Nine Monotypes by Degas
- New York, E.V. Thaw & Co., 1964-12-01 to
- Janis, Eugenia Parry, Degas Monotypes, 1968, no. 301
- Adhemar, Jean; and F. Cachin, Degas, the Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, 1974, no. 186
- Kendall, Richard, Degas, by Himself, 1987, p. 246
- Kendall, Richard, Degas Landscapes, 1993, no. 150 p. 169
- Dumas, Ann; and Richard Kendall, Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, the Views of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme in Context, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara et al., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, 2009, Fig. 24 p. 191
- Museum of Modern Art, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, 2016, Plate 137 p. #190
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