GUILLAUMIN, Armand
(b. 1841, Paris, d. 1927, Orly)

Sunset at Ivry

1873
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Guillaumin painted with Pissarro. He worked night shifts in order to paint by day. From Pissarro he took the structure and composition of street views with figures and the creation of spatial depth by the use of twisted lanes. But he also had a somewhat romantically coloured view of modern industry of his own. In the present work we see smoke billowing from factory chimneys in the Paris suburb of Ivry, like triumphant banners fluttering against a ruddy golden evening sky.




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