# Pont des Arts, in Early modernism

H. Lyman Saÿen painted this in 1908-1911, aged about 33. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: 1908-1911
- Medium: oil on wood
- Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 13 3/4 in. (26.4 x 35.0 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1970.81
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[H. Lyman Saÿen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/h-lyman-sayen), born Philadelphia, PA 1875-died Philadelphia, PA 1918

Saÿen trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts while working as an electrical engineer, patenting improvements to X-ray tubes. In Paris from 1906 he joined Henri Matisse’s classes and absorbed the bold colour of Fauvism.

3 works in the collection.

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