"Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artists' actual thoughts are left visible." (Pliny, AD 77)

Railway Locomotive at Arles

Arnold Smith, November 2002
Oil on linen, 65.5 x 73 cm.

Reconstruction from an oil stain that had soaked through the canvas, to the back of the painting "Railway Carriages".(F 446, JH 1553) The original painting was scraped off and painted over.


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