Size card: 4″x 8.5″, 10.5cm x 21cm
Date: circa 1978
Media: Sepia printed card, hand colored
Where: Fayence, Var, France
Signature: “christine benson”
Currently: Family collection
A street view of the nearby village of Seillans where my mother would often have exhibitions or teach classes. It was also the home of several good friends of hers. I have removed the normal printed dot screens on all these samples to make them look closer to the original and avoid any moiré effects. Below are two versions of the printed card. You can see that it was often hard for my mother to get the desired print density so that she could hand paint them if she wanted,
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