Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor

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At a time when the artist was still honing his skills in sentiment, anatomy and proportion using pen and pencil sketches, the watercolor was a bolt from the blue, although its muted tones are still a far cry from the exuberant and colorful oil... “It’s a very develop, well done watercolor and that’s quite extraordinary in this period of Van Gogh’s oeuvre,’’ said Marije Vellekoop, the museum’s curator of prints and drawings. The Van Gogh Museum unveiled the painting Thursday, the first combining in five years to its world-famous collection of works by the postimpressionist master. “Out of the blue, in the summer, in July, he makes a series of watercolors … with a lot of detail, but also very painterly, polished.

Source: Boston.com