Drie portretten van jonge vrouwen 1900 - 1930

Bleuet made these three photographic portraits of young women, presented together in an album page, and likely made in a studio. The artist has manipulated each image using a different photographic tint, so we see the three sitters through different colored lenses: blue, pink, and brown. Perhaps Bleuet was thinking about the three primary colors, or even the way that one can alter and shape the photographic image through colorization. It makes me wonder, what was it like for the artist to make them? Were they thinking of an idea or exploring a technique, or trying to find the best likeness? I imagine Bleuet in the dark room, deciding on the hue of the photograph, and using it to bring out the beauty of each sitter. What does the pink-colored girl in the flower have to do with the blue-toned woman holding a flower? Or the sepia-toned woman draped in fabric? I am reminded that as artists, we're always in conversation with one another.