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Painting of a seated bare-shouldered man reading a book, with blue foliage at left and a yellow sunlit sky behind him.

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Signac - Study for In the Time of Harmony Man Reading, 1894, FC 256, Paul Signac (1894), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This study by Paul Signac, dated 1894 and catalogued as FC 256, shows a seated, bare-shouldered man absorbed in reading a book held in both hands. Loose, dabbed brushwork renders the figure in warm ochres and reds against a blue-green foreground and a pale yellow sky.

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