Place Vendome
- Date:
- description
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
The Place Vendôme in Paris — with its grand neoclassical facades and the central column commemorating Napoleon's Austerlitz victory — is an unexpected subject for Karhu, whose work was almost entirely Japan-focused. The print likely dates from a period when Karhu traveled in Europe, and it demonstrates his ability to apply his architectural eye to a completely different urban environment. The formal, symmetrical grandeur of Haussmann-era Paris required very different compositional strategies than the intimate, asymmetrical character of Kyoto's traditional streets.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Place Vendome was created by Clifton Karhu in description.
Place Vendome depicts urban scenes and architecture.
