T hese works were made between 1998 and 2000. They haven’t been shown until now, thank you to Jill. Around that time, a recent visit to Eglise Sainte-Chapelle in Paris combined with -financial- circumstances which kept me from working on large-format paintings made modest-sized watercolors the ideal choice. The series immediately preceding had been made with powdered pigment on canvas. I had wanted the experience of unmediated color, the most extreme form of saturation, which offers itself to the eye as light. With watercolor I discovered the magic of transparent pigment: light traveling through color to the white of paper and returning to the eye as illumination, evoking the beauty of stained glass on a sunlit day.
Gerard Mossé, September 2026
Self Portrait Charcoal and graphite on paper 11 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches Private collection
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