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Two Millet drawings.

Some fine Rauf pastels. In side sketches a café concert
[[ink sketch]]a café scene: two standing figures one holding hat out as if singing; four hatted ladies in foreground with back to viewer [[/ink sketch]]

Color.

The grays in a painting are what make the touches of color tell. Witness Puvis de Chevannes. Alfred

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Stevans. Much color and absence of grey is hot in effect. Such as Lindon Smith's decoration in the Library. And Sargent's lacks [[strikethrough]] color effect [[/strikethrough]] luminosity from the same reason plus the fact that the extreme realism has forced him to use every gradation from back to white in each spot of the canvas, so that no one mass tells against another to cause vibration.

It is wonderful how simply Puvis solved the difficulty of decoration for a yellow marble

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Jean-François Millet (Barbizon school)