Corfu: Lights and Shadows
1909 · Translucent and opaque watercolour with wax resist over graphite on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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About this work
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
- Year
- 1909
- Medium
- Translucent and opaque watercolour with wax resist over graphite on paper
- Original size
- 40.3 × 53.1 cm
- Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Movement
- Impressionism
A small whitewashed hut stands in full sun, its wall dappled with the violet and blue shadows of an olive tree, with a green door, a bright bush at the left and a glimpse of sea at the right. Sargent painted it on Corfu in 1909, in the park of the royal villa of Mon Repos where he was staying. The white of the wall is mostly bare paper, with the shadows washed over it in transparent colour. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston bought it from the artist in 1912.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A sunlit white, lilac and green watercolour for a bedroom, bathroom or sunroom in a thin black frame. It brightens white or soft blue walls at 12×18 and pairs with Homer's A Wall, Nassau.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Impressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1909)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
