Port-Villez - 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 

25102 

$350.00 

After the 1894 painting "The Seine at Port-Villez (Evening Effect)," a scene that Claude Monet captured in at least two oil paintings in order to capture the effect of the light at different times of day. Schwaberow focuses on just a portion of the work, the left-hand side in which a spit of land is reflected in the French river's quiet surface. True to his desire to capture the mood as closely as possible, Schwaberow successfully depicts the muted greens, roses, and lavenders of the faded evening light that Monet also strived to show.