Getty Museum 84.PC.39
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Model Resting, 1889, Oil on cardboard, 65.4 × 49.2 cm (25 3/4 × 19 3/8 in.)
»Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels«
Rare Pastels in Los Angeles
Pastel painting made an unexpected comeback among the Impressionists in the late 19th century. This chalk painting technique offered many advantages to the revolutionary painters' working methods. Beginning March 15, the Getty Center in Los Angeles will display rare works in the exhibition Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels.
March 14, 2022
Revival of an Old-Fashioned Medium: Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels is on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles beginning March 15. Rarely exhibited works from the museum's own collection trace the resurgence of pastel painting up to about 1900. On view through August 14 are pastels by Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, among others.
Aided by the development of new synthetic colors, Impressionists rediscovered pastel painting beginning around 1870. It proved useful for a quick method of working, with which painters captured constantly changing light and weather phenomena. Painting with chalk eliminated the need for long drying times required by oil paints. An outdated painting technique thus became an important component of revolutionary Impressionism and also radiated to Symbolism as well as other subsequent movements.
Getty Museum 94.GG.48
Francesco Paolo Michetti, Self-Portrait, 1877, Gouache, pastel, and black chalk on brown wove paper, 45.7 × 28.6 cm (18 × 11 1/4 in.)
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Hamburger Kunsthalle shows Hanns Kunitzberger
Unframed pictorial worlds
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Light and code: Revolutionary art of the 20th century
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