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The Long Rain
The Long Rain
The Long Rain

The Long Rain

Titles
  • La Longue Pluie
Artist (French, 1900 - 1955)
Date1942
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 x 22 in. (99.1 x 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Friends of the Academy, 1943 (262.1)
Object number262.1
DescriptionSurrealistic landscape, showing strange ovoid shapes (in coral, red, blue, blue-gray, green, gray-white, and black)placed at right and left of gray foreground; casting black shadows behind them. Foreground darkens toward low horizon. Sky of light grayed pink, turquoise and blue shows horizontal streaks of blackish clouds. Double frame; inner, narrow light gray; outer, wide heavy decorated gold and gray.
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