Description

Signed boldly in the lower right by artist Marguerite Gifford, this striking watercolor depicts a young Cambodian boy seated contemplatively before a massive moss-and-lichen-covered Khmer stone deity, almost certainly from the Angkor temple complex. The palette is hauntingly restrained, blending cool blue-grays with warm ochre flesh tones in a composition that feels both ethnographic and deeply artistic, suggesting the artist had firsthand experience in French Indochina. The work is housed in a clean natural maple wood frame with mat, glazed with glass, and measures an impressive vertical format that commands any wall. On the verso, a handwritten note on aged paper reads 'Tenth and Twentieth Century Cambodians, Angkor' followed by a description of Angkor as a city of monumental buildings housing 200,000 people, discovered in 1861 by a French naturalist, making this piece as historically annotated as it is visually compelling.

Condition

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Measurement

19" x 27"H

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