La Biancheria
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1910
Museum of
Fine Arts,
Boston
Transparent
and opaque watercolor over graphite, with wax resist, on paper
Sheet: 40.3 x 52.7 cm (15 7/8 x 20 3/4 in.)
Charles
Henry Hayden
Collection
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See the year in review 1910
From: Anne Lindsay
aml inds ay@altavista.com
Date: 8 Jun 2000 07:59:06
-0700
I saw this painting [La
Biancheria]
at a Brooklyn museum watercolor show about 2 years ago. . . I love
[this
painting] because it looks deceptively simple. He had to know exactly
what
he wanted and how to get there before he began. I think watercolor
appears
to be spontaneous but not in this case. He did not paint the
laundry,
he had to leave it blank and paint in the other parts around the
laundry.
. .
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