The Blue Robe — Henri Lebasque | Zolota Ptakha

A single saturated blue carries the picture here, the way it often does in later Lebasque — colour first, then everything else. The painter absorbed that lesson alongside Matisse and the wider Fauve circle in the years after 1900, and his domestic figure studies often read like quiet experiments in how far one tone can carry a scene. Slipped into an envelope or pinned above a desk, it joins easily with similarly colour-led pieces in a broader painting postcard collection.