Pencil envy

Whilst in Bordeaux for the New Year, I visited the landscape exhibition at the Musée des Beaux Arts - essentially a relabeling of the museum's collection. However, a room at the end was dedicated to the Bordeaux sketches of Albert Marquet, made at the turn of the century, and those of Daniel Dezeuze, made under Manquet's influence in 1962. Dezeuze made these pencil drawings when he was 20 years old. I hope to be able to manage something half as good before I'm 60.

Four years later Dezeuze joined the late 60's avant-garde, and became a founding member of the French group of artists called 'Supports-Surfaces' - who desired to 'deconstruct painting in order to re-examine its history and question its nature'. His famous work from 1967 is Stretcher covered in plastic film. I like the sketches.