Woman Reading

Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956) - Woman Reading, c.1930 (Gouache on paper) - “Yet, style, in the sense of his own special way of handling form and color, remained for Metzinger the determining factor, something imposed on his subjects to give them their special pictorial character. His sweet, rich colour… was unashamedly artificial, and is itself symptomatic of the fact that his return to lucid representation did not mean a return to nature approached naturalistically…” – Christopher Green