George Morren

*Woman Pinning Her Hat* exemplifies the duality between the softness of the blending tool and the precision of the line that George Morren employs in his works. The coloured powder spreads out in broad, velvety patches; to shape them, the artist uses the blending tool, bringing it to life with a multitude of hatching strokes. Bathed in a light that seems to emanate from the fresh, infinitely nuanced tones of white and blue, this intimate scene features a few barely silhouetted toiletries; one of them echoes the warm colouring of the background – against which the white-saturated dress stands out – thus balancing the composition. Art historian Serge Goyens de Heusch tells us: “The painter often left small areas between the brushstrokes uncovered by pigment, so that the resulting lightening of the tones would allow for a better diffusion of light. Morren understood the benefits of a brushstroke simply rubbed onto a rough canvas, where the white replaces the impasto highlights so dear to the Flemish school.”

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