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Carl Larsson, The Christmas Eve (1904-1905)
Uncharacteristic for watercolor paintings so often diffuse. In addition it is a pretty "ligne claire", in close proximity in its strokes to the other ligne claire medium of the time, poster art.
Though the coloring techniques seen here are familiar in belgian illustrated stories (BD) which took off about three decades later. So this watercolor, like poster art offers an example of the predecessors of the art of the BD, particularly its coloring, which gives color areas a rich texture (see the coloring of the wall in my profile photo which is taken from one of Herge's Tintin albums).
Goes very well with a lot of the music, short stories and science texts from the first quarter of the XXth century that i've been perusing.
Bonus watercolor
The same as the foregoing goes for this bonus watercolor, with a subject even more fascinating and more intimate, brimming with nostalgia and potential, that also reminds me a bit of Leo Tolstoy the illustrations of a famous edition of his classic stories for children. (should update on the edition and illustrators when i locate the book in one of the bookshelves.
Carl Larsson, Frukost under stora björken (Breakfast under the big birch) (1896)
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