Landscape
2023
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soft pastel on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 165.1 × 190.5 cm (65 × 75 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stuart Barr and Sarah Mackey-Barr
Accession Number
2024.184.1
Art Historical Context
Nicolas Party's *Landscape* (2023) is a striking contemporary painting that invites viewers into a vibrant, dreamlike vision of nature. Measuring 65 × 75 inches, this large-scale work on canvas—recently gifted to the National Gallery of Art by Stuart Barr and Sarah Mackey-Barr—exemplifies Party's signature style as a Swiss artist known for his bold, color-saturated compositions. Housed in the CMC department, it bridges traditional landscape genres with modern abstraction, encouraging us to reconsider how we perceive the natural world. The choice of soft pastel as a medium is particularly note...