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Two watercolors by the Dutch artist Phil G. Grisel.
Two for the price of one.
Paper size 50x65. Footage 29.5x41.5.
The following anecdote about Grisel in the collection 'Or something never shifted' by Willem Jan van Wijk: Rather hilarious was the arrival of le Comte de Vallombreuse in his life. Presumably the Earl had come across the name Grisel in England where a work by the painter was part of an art collection established by the Bertrand Russell Foundation. Two exhibitions followed: in Biaritz in Galerie Vallombreuse (1973) and in Palm Beach Volleyball, Florida (1974). After a while the excitement ebbed away and the days regained the calm frame of the dike, grass and river. Monsieur le Comte would forever remain a shadowy figure.
Poem from the above collection dedicated to Phil G. Grisel : A laundry day linen gray And on the dirty sheet Floeren spider bale cat foot The red spotted hangover
The sable hair strict sleeping body The legs stretched out lazily Soon the scales will be cracking again Do you see it leaking amber
Loosely a brush claws its fur Spinning the red spots Floeren spinbale grime paw Paint spills a cat on linen Ph.GG, 'Cat' '63