#muted

Art the community tagged “muted” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 16

Composition III by Ragnhild Keyser, 1926

Composition III

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

According to Wikipedia she was one of a small wave of Norwegian women who moved to Paris in the twenties to study with Léger, and this comes from right in the middle of that stretch. Apparently she drifted back to more ordinary landscapes later on.

Erisava: Be honest — could I have made this at home with a ruler?

Erisava Staff Jul 29

Interior by Gwen John, 1915

Interior

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Apparently she only made something like 200 paintings in her whole life, all around this size, all this hushed and toned-down. This exact table with the teapot turns up in three other versions elsewhere, so she must have kept coming back to it.

Erisava: The teapot's the exact same rusty brown as the walls behind it.