Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket The hand-painted design--really a drawing

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

A really wondeful thing to hang on the wall

from the David Gil & Yesuke Aida era

which make me think

I believe it was created by Thomas Field Mostrom (1959-2005)

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket The hand-painted design--really a drawingMy new favorite antique watercolor. I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment, with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop, but here it is the whole scene (set at the Saint Cloud race track just outside of Paris), and especially the faces of the riders, that put it over the top. The manner of the painting is also reminding me of Henry Darger, so I am projecting vivid interior lives onto these equestrians, and their horses