Branch of the Seine - from 'Homage to Monet' portfolio

 

Micah Schwaberow

  1948 - 2022 (biography)

1988  

color woodcut 

3 x 3" image size 

pencil, lower right margin; signed on mat, lower right 

21 of 69  

pencil dated and editioned in lower margin and on mat; titled on mat, lower right corner 

p. 41, "Festival of Light - the Color Woodblock Prints of Micah Schwaberow," Jaramillo, Mission Gallery, 2024 

handmade Japanese wove 

published 

artist 

25101 

$400.00 

After the oil painting by Claude Monet, "Morning on the Seine, Near Giverny," from the series of images of this portion of the French river executed between 1896 and 1897. From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:

"In the summers of 1896 and 1897 Monet set up his easel at three-thirty each morning in a boat moored just off the riverbank near his house at Giverny. There he sat and painted the series of twenty-one canvases to which this one belongs. Grisaille effects of morning mist, trees half-visible in the dawn light, and glimmering reflections on the water make this series arguably the most subtle he ever painted."

Schwaberow focuses on just a portion of the painting, concentrating on the silhouette of the trees where they reflect on the mirror-flat surface of the water. The palette pays particular homage to Monet, when the French painter found great inspiration in the pastels of early mornings and dusks in rural France.