Baronne de Domecy (detail), about 1900, Odilon Redon. Pastel and graphite. Getty Museum
Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels
GETTY CENTER
South Pavilion, Upper Level
This is a past event
In an age of formal experimentation, pastels offered artists a thrilling range of possibilities: an iridescent palette, a diverse array of textures, and a more immediate mode of working than oil paints. Late 19th-century pastellists achieved a range of effects, from the ethereal to the visceral. Tracing the evolution of pastels from Impressionism to Symbolism, this installation presents seldom seen works in the Getty collection by Degas, Redon, and others.