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Young Girl Sewing — Henri Lebasque | Zolota Ptakha
Young Girl Sewing — Henri Lebasque | Zolota Ptakha
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Sewing is one of Lebasque's signature subjects — partly because his household revolved around it, partly because it gave him a still figure, good light, and an excuse to work in close registers of pink, white, and warm shadow. The painting joins a long European tradition of domestic interiors that runs from Vermeer and Chardin through to Vuillard, restated here in the gentler key of the early twentieth century. Sent as a postcard, it carries an almost confessional quietness, and pairs naturally with other intimate scenes in an art postcard collection.
