La Cruche caffée 1925

George Barbier made this, La Cruche caffée, with watercolour and graphite, and I think I'm falling in love with his lines. Look at the way he's made marks around the figures, framing them into place. And the colors are kind of incredible, all muted like a memory. The guy in the painting, he looks like he's about to give this woman a piece of his mind, he's even got one foot up on the wall, like some kind of pompous peacock! And she's carrying this big coffee pot, looking like, "Oh, brother, not this again." What's he gonna do? Steal her coffee? Barbier was a painter, but he was also a fashion designer. You can really see that sensibility in his work, he just knows how bodies move, how clothes hang. He manages to capture this feeling that he really gets what it's like to be a person, living in this moment.