Bretons landschap met koeien in de nevel 1902 - 1951

Henri Rivière made this landscape with cows, probably in his studio after a visit to Brittany. It's like he breathed it onto the paper, with washes of grey and green that just barely suggest forms – the trees, the cows, the rocks. I wonder what it was like for Rivière, layering these colours, trying to catch that fleeting moment when the fog softens everything. The texture feels almost accidental, like he let the paper and the pigment do their thing. It's a dance between control and letting go. Check out the way he’s placed those cows, just little daubs of darker colour. It makes me think about how painters are always in conversation with each other, picking up ideas, twisting them, and seeing what happens. Painting is about that search, isn’t it? It’s never really finished, just paused for a while.