Discussing pictures and the mentality of painting in narrow color ranges as evidenced by Regnault’s Salome as well as with work by Albert Moore, Whistler and others. Compares such work, often termed “decorative” with standard impressionist performances.

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QUESTION: I ran into a quote of the American muralist, Edwin Blashfield, when a student in Paris, commenting on his surprise at seeing Henri Regnault’s painting, ‘Salome,’ “done in a scale of one color, yellow” and wondered what he meant by it. Referenced the ‘Blue Boy,’ too.

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