"A Corner of Paris"

Artist Henry Sugimoto (American, 1900 - 1990)

Date1964

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationsFine Arts

Credit LineGift of Estate of Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto

Object number2015.7.118

DescriptionStretched. Image of a street corner in Paris. Multistory apartments and a restaurant store front are the focal point of the image, rather than a landscape or distant view; the viewer can see the angular structure of multiple apartments in different sizes crowd next to each other. A female figure carrying a basket of baguettes (foreground) walks past a brightly colored house in yellow, blue, and green. The background apartment in a dark gray, mixed with blue and dark green. The sky above the building is a muddy blue, characterizing a slummy, urban view of Paris.