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Moonlight on Water
Moonlight on Water

Moonlight on Water

Artist (b. 1925)
MediumWatercolour on paper
Dimensions38.5 x 43.7 cm
ClassificationsWatercolours
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Serge Philipson through the Contemporary Irish Art Society, 1966.
Object number1254
DescriptionThis watercolour is an incredibly simplistic rendering of moonlight reflecting on water. The background has been given a wash of black watercolour paint while the foreground has been produced with brushstrokes with a vertical section left bare to simulate reflected light.
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