Landscape with Two Sailing Boats
Drawn in sharply contrasting values, this pastel landscape recalls those of Claude Monet made half a century earlier. Guillaumin probably sketched this scene near Agay on the Cote d’Azur, a fishing town he visited intermittently for forty years beginning in 1887.
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape with Two Sailing Boats
- Artist: Armand Guillaumin (French, Paris 1841–1927 Orly)
- Date: 1909
- Medium: Pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions: 18 11/16 x 24 5/8 in. (47.5 x 62.5 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.1.635
- Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection
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