Bennecourt - 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 65  

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 

25103 

$350.00 

Claude Monet's "Ice Floes" is one of several he executed in the winter of 1892-'93 when the portion of the frozen Seine river that ran through Bennecourt, France - near his home in Giverny - began to thaw and send ice flows downstream. Schwaberow focused on the right-hand portion of the canvas from 1893 that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ob. no. 29.100.108). From the Met's website:

"The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892–93 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine in a series of paintings for which he chose a vantage point not far from his home in Giverny. The river had frozen in mid-January but began to thaw on the 23rd; the following day, in a letter to his dealer, Durand-Ruel, Monet lamented that 'the thaw came too soon for me . . . the results—just four or five canvases and they are far from complete.' By the end of February, however, he had finished more than a dozen paintings, including this view of the melting ice floes."