Before and After. Nice Interior 1956
After framing.
Just an image to show how this looked after framing. The piece is currently unframed!
Study of Nice interior
I thought it might be interesting to see how this piece began. It was painted in our holiday apartment in Nice in about 03. An amazing place with a view of girls of the night from the rear window and a tropical garden leading to Promenade des Anglais at the front. High ceilings and marble floors. It was such pure escapism! This is where we sat to read mostly. I read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway for the first time in that chair!
Dean
The painting comes across as so spontaneous. Unrestrained, your gift for capturing the moment is fantastic. Chantal is wrong about the frame -its just right !
I’ve been enjoying the interiors that came back with Chantal. I like them even more in real life and felt very drawn to them. If we end up with buying one of those I’ll be delighted. You have an astonishing breadth of work and techniques – its almost too big a playground, but I’m convinced that its in the unrestrained moments of joy that you’re free to paint your best work and your raw talent shows through. These interiors, perfume to bird song and figure in a room all have that about them. You seem at peace in them.
thank you so much Rob. I think that my flux between light and dark gets communicated over time. You are right though all of those pieces have that light quality and actually were made in a similar mental state. I hadnt realised.