- Medium
- Ink
- Made
- 1888
- Inscribed
- “I heard Raolin had a beautiful / head at the Salon. / I have been to the seacoast for a / week and very likely am going there / again soon. That shore / sands - fine figures there / like Cezanne - straight stylish / working at a . / The great field all violet. The sky & sun very / yellow. It is a hard subject to paint. / Please remember me very kindly to / Mrs AAAAA. and my hearty / shake hands. / My dear [crossed out] for ever so long have / been wishing to write to you - but then / the work has so taken me up. We have / harvest time here at present and I am / always in the fields. / And when I sit down to write I / am so abstracted by recollections of / what I have seen that I leave the / letter. For instance at the present / occasion I was writing to you and / going to say something about Miles / as it is - and as it was in the / old days of Boccaccio. - / Still instead of continuing the letter / I began to draw on the very paper / the head of a dirty little girl I saw / this afternoon which was passing / a view of the river with a yellow / sky. / This dirty mudlark I thought / yet has very vague Florentine sort of figure / like the heads in the monticellis / pictures. and reasoning and drawing / this wise I worked on the letter”
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