The Canal, Brittany Landscape

Roger de La Fresnaye1909

Details

Title: The Canal, Brittany Landscape
Creator Lifespan: 1885 - 1925
Creator Nationality: French
Creator Gender: Male
Date Created: 1909
Type: oil paintings
Rights: Gift of Miss Blanche Stillson in memory of Caroline Marmon Fesler
External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/23561
Medium: oil on compressed fiberboard mounted to Masonite
wall label: During the summer of 1909 La Fresnaye made a bicycling tour of Brittany, in western France. This landscape, based on a drawing from one of his sketchbooks, shows his attraction to the clever use of pattern and color adopted by Nabi painters Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. La Fresnaye presented the Breton houses and undulating landscape as a decorative arrangement of flat shapes and gentle harmonies of rose and gray. Within a year, the young artist's interest in form and structure would lead him to experiment with the principles of Cubism.
measurements: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.
Artist: La Fresnaye, Roger de

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