Bal Bullier, Paris
John Marin
1906
- Medium
- Etching with plate tone on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 13.8 × 19.7 cm (5 7/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 22.7 × 28.9 cm (8 15/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Here Marin juxtaposed a carefully described street scene with a sky dramatized by a free array of slashes, scratches, and hatching. This etching corresponds to his watercolors of the time, in which the sky reveals the greatest freedom in his handling of the brush.
