Tag: France
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Fayence – Robert Fabre Avenue
Read more: Fayence – Robert Fabre Avenueayence – Robert Fabre Avenue looking from Rue Maurice Astier as best as I can work out from my recollection and looking at Google maps. It was a particularly hazardous intersection especially on…..
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La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs draft
Read more: La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs draftThe working draft for La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs. My mother would often do a very quick sketch of a selected subject on location. Sometimes these draft pictures would be good enough…..
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La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs
Read more: La Cueillette des Figues / Picking FigsLa Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs was part of a series of watercolours my mother painted to sell in her little gallery. She decided that she…..
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Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest draft
Read more: Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest draftThe working draft for Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest. My mother would often do a very quick sketch of a selected subject. Sometimes these draft pictures would be simple line drawings with a brief notation on colors, other times…..
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Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest
Read more: Récolter des Figues / Fig HarvestRécolter des Figues / Fig Harvest was part of a series of watercolours my mother painted to sell in her little gallery. She decided that she…..
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The Purple Alps
Read more: The Purple AlpsThe Purple Alps was a small landscape painted while the family was on holiday in the South of France long before she emigrated there. This holiday was the planting of that seed, see,,,.
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The Wish IV- Liberty / Hope
Read more: The Wish IV- Liberty / HopeInitially this painting was called The Wish IV (Liberty), at a later date the name was changed to Hope or L’espérance in French. The subject is Danielle Politzer with whom she had just completed a commissioned portrait. It is a slightly dark painting as the young woman in her torn blouse, is seated in a…
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Danielle Politzer
Read more: Danielle PolitzerThe Danielle Politzer portrait was a small commission from one of the local families in Fayence. After doing the painting my mother persuaded Danielle to model for another painting just a couple of weeks later called, The Wish – Liberty….