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A mass of figures rendered in ink wash with subtle gradations of tone. The mass is visible as a single form.
Les Migrants
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Les Migrants

Artist Didier Viodé (Beninese)
Date2016
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (29.2 × 41.9 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2018.47.1
Collections
Visual DescriptionA mass of figures rendered in ink wash with subtle gradations of tone. The mass is visible as a single form.
Three running figures that seem to be carrying another person and baggage. The subtle gradations of the black ink wash dissolve and solidify their forms.
Les Migrants
Didier Viodé
2016
A group of five figures, rendered in ink wash; signed by artist in lower right corner
Les Migrants
Didier Viodé
2018
Les Migrants
Les Migrants
Didier Viodé
2016
A tall, narrow vertical painting of pale beige with faint vertical lines running the length and subtle gradations in the color.
Icicle
Gene Davis
1977
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Les Hasards Heureux des Escarpolettes
Jiri Anderle
1978
A brown wash drawing of a standing, cloaked figure on the left, facing two intertwined nude figures swept upwards. A pale nude figure lies horizontally across the bottom foreground. Faint, sketchy figures emerge from the sweeping background strokes.
Dante in Hell Discovers Paolo and Francesca, Virgil by His Side
Henry Fuseli
c. 1818
A print featuring a realistic, stern-faced man with wild hair on the left. Wispy lines stretch from his head, merging into a large, chaotic, abstract mass of dense, swirling scribbles and horn-like shapes on the right.
Beethoven
Jiri Anderle
1986
Abstract drawing on tan paper. The top half features a dense cluster of chaotic, swirling brushstrokes in ochre, brown, and grey. Below this mass, faint pencil lines outline a simple, curved shape resembling a vase.
Snooty Bouquet
Hiram Williams
1986
A drawing featuring an earthy reddish-brown wash overlaid with thin, erratic, grass-like lines at the lower left. Three thick, textured white vertical strips span the composition.
Mountain Ranges and Beech (Audience Destroys its Environment)
Hiram Williams
1992
A drawing featuring a drawn upper border enclosing a smudged grey wash with thin diagonal lines. Below this is a thick, wavy reddish-brown band covered in short dark marks, with two vertical streaks extending into the blank white lower section.
Where Only Man is Vile
Hiram Williams
1992
Abstract mixed-media drawing on off-white paper featuring a central area of pale orange and pink wash. Surrounding this are faint graphite lines, scribbles, and smudges in grey and black.
Chorus Line Skinned
Hiram Williams
1986
The Osceola riverboat sails on the Oklawaha River. Several figures are visible standing at the rails and sitting on the stairs of the steamer. The riverbanks are heavily vegetated with trees and shrubbery.
A Trip on the Oklawaha
Frank Hamilton Taylor
1880

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