Spaanse vrouw trekt een schoen aan 1893 - 1916

Alexandre Lunois made this print of a Spanish woman putting on a shoe, probably sometime around the turn of the last century. I love that the woman is hunched over, you know, really getting in there! She’s all yellows and whites, set against the dun-colored wall. The whole thing looks like it's been rubbed into the surface, kind of like an Edgar Degas monotype, or maybe even one of those old Vuillard interiors, where everything blends into a beautiful, dusty haze. I can imagine him, Lunois, rubbing the lithographic crayon all over the stone. It makes you wonder what he was thinking when he made this print, and what she was thinking as she shoved her foot into that shoe! There's a wonderful intimacy to it. We are all, as artists, in this ongoing conversation, and I think Lunois would be happy to know we're still looking, thinking, and feeling along with him. Painting is about sharing those messy, funny, weird, human moments.