Winter in Paris
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 13/16 inches (32.7 × 45.24 cm)
Paris: A Collage, University of Kansas Student Union Gallery, Lawrence, KS, January 25-February 13, 1976, no cat.
Town and Country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 23, 2011-January 22, 2012, no cat., as Winter in Paris.
Town and Country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-November 10, 2019, no cat., as Winter in Paris.
As with many of Félix Buhot’s prints, Winter in Paris is composed of a main image surrounded by what the artist called “symphonic” scenes that relate to the overall theme. The central composition depicts the Place Bréda in Montmartre immobilized by snow. Buhot illustrates the social disparities among the Parisian types, contrasting the richly dressed woman and child trailed by their poodle with anonymous street workers and an emaciated dog. The harshness of winter is further evoked in the scenes at left, where a horse has collapsed in the road from either exhaustion or abuse, and men with shovels warm themselves by a makeshift fire.
Frances M. Logan (1855-1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946;
Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
Gustave Bourcard and James Goodfriend, Félix Buhot, catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre gravé (New York: M. Gordon, 1979), no. 128 IV/IX, pp. 77-78, as L’Hiver a [sic] Paris ou La neige a [sic] Paris.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 291, as L’Hiver à Paris or La Neige à Paris.
