Paysage de bord de mer aux deux personnages féminins - Lavis d'encre grise, aquarelle et gouache en dendrite

Seaside landscape with two little girls and their dog.Wash drawing with grey ink, watercolor and gouache in dendrite


[Nohant] | 1874-1876 | 16 x 12 cm | one framed watercolor
Gilt rod frame with several shards.
Beautiful example of dendrite by George Sand.
It is at the end of her life, around 1874, that George Sand became passionate about a different visual creation technique to those of the pure watercolor or traditional drawings that she had practised since childhood: dendrite. She first mixes shards of crushed crystalline stone with gouache or watercolor, then her son «Maurice crushes watercolor colors between two bristol boards. This crushing produces sometimes bizarre veins. My imagination helping, I see woods, forests, or lakes, and I accentuate these vague forms produced by chance.» Bernard-Griffiths et Levet, Fleurs et jardins dans l'œuvre de George Sand.
As a signature, George Sand would often add to her landscapes her twin grand daughters, said «Lolo» and «Titite» and the dog Fadet, like here in the left foreground of the painting.