Nocturne II by Joseph Stella, circa 1919, pastel on paper by Joseph Stella

Pastel drawing of a night scene with gabled houses, a picket fence, dark trees and a deep blue sky.

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Nocturne II by Joseph Stella, circa 1919, pastel on paper, Joseph Stella (1919), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A nocturnal scene of overlapping gabled rooftops and a small house with a shuttered window, set behind a picket fence under a deep blue night sky. The pastel drawing uses soft, smudged tones of black, grey and ochre, with a dark green shrub in the foreground. This work, titled Nocturne II, is by Joseph Stella and dates to 1919.

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1919

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Wikimedia Commons

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