Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window Hokusai Painted a few years before

Painted a few years before his death and demonstrating a perfect mastery of color

one of the artist's hallmarks

he now prefers colorful verticals and horizontals that create optical dynamism luminous

on a Directoire style mahogany chair decorated with bronze foliage and palm leaves and covered with a red cloth

It serves Kirchner as a stage for this figure

Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window Hokusai Painted a few years beforeThe motif of the letter, widely represented in the painting of the time, is also sufficient to identify the amorous nature of the scene, and to reconstruct the narration: the young woman has just received a letter, and has advanced towards the scene. light to be able to read it more conveniently, devoting all her thoughts to the man she loves