This painting is tiny, but the color is light and sharply contrasted. Each part of the canvas is touched once only with the brush, depositing a thick, colored material with a coarse body, which serves at the same time as object, observation and distance, and which dries with a peculiar pitted surface. This image of a girl reading suggests her silent access to her imagination. (http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/158010101642/the-seated-woman-c1910-1920-gwen-john)