Waterecolour sketch with three broad areas of colour, a darker region, and lowed region in light green (variegated), and some middle colour masses in brown (the cows, when you know the series it was in)

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1. Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 09:27:49 UTC Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   Meanwhile.... leafing through a exhibition catalogue for a Berthe Morisot show, from some decades ago, I came across this lovely little watercolour sketch.

   Painted in 1880 while you can see cows when you know it comes from a series of watercolours of that subject.... on its own it really shows how the impressionists were already moving well towards abstraction in the work in the C19th.

   In this it sort of pre-figures work by Joan Mitchell & other American abstract artists.

   #art #painting