Word: rewald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bright Vision. Seurat's The Watering Can, which Paul Mellon presented to his wife as a Christmas present, is a vibrant testimony to the pleasure that the painter found in contemplating his father's garden outside Paris. Says Art Historian John Rewald: "Seurat welcomed the opportunity for small studies on the play of light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first...