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Champagne Glasses, pastel, 31 x 23" (79 x 58 cm)
         This painting was a nice but difficult challenge consisting of composing a symphony of transparency and reflections. The background is a paper
         designed to wrap presents. I chose it because it carries silvery stripes helping to structure the picture from top to bottom.
          The glasses seem to have been put in haphazardly. In fact, I tried different compositions before carefully arresting this one. My idea was to
         arrange the glasses so they look like notes on a music score.


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   FrancoisMalnati.indd   115                                                     6/22/16   11:20 AM
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