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Nightfall in St. Cloud (Abend im Park)

Gabriele Münter

European Art

Gabriele Münter’s studies of the Parisian countryside were executed en plein air (outdoors) with overlapping strokes of wet paint, thickly applied with a palette knife, resulting in nearly abstracted images of land and sky. Of her landscape painting, Münter said, “My main difficulty was I could not paint fast enough. My pictures are all moments of life—I mean instantaneous visual experiences, generally noted very rapidly and spontaneously. When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim.”
MEDIUM Oil on paperboard mounted on pulpboard
  • Place Made: France
  • DATES 1906
    DIMENSIONS 3 15/16 x 6 1/2 in. (10 x 16.5 cm)  (show scale)
    SIGNATURE Signed lower left: "M"
    COLLECTIONS European Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 1992.107.29
    CREDIT LINE Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr.
    PROVENANCE By 1962, estate of the artist; between 1962 and 1967, provenance not yet documented; 1967, purchased at Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, NY by William K. Jacobs, Jr. of New York; 1992, gift of the estate of William K. Jacobs, Jr. to the Brooklyn Museum.
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    CAPTION Gabriele Münter (German, 1877–1962). Nightfall in St. Cloud (Abend im Park), 1906. Oil on paperboard mounted on pulpboard, 3 15/16 x 6 1/2 in. (10 x 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr., 1992.107.29. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.107.29_PS9.jpg)
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