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A horse comes head-on, its head lowered, one foreleg extended down to the dark patch that serves as ground and the other flexed, its black hoof raised. It is painted in broad, loose strokes: ochres and creams in the face and chest, greyish greens along the neck and flank, blacks in the hooves and in the mane, which falls untidily over its eyes.

The tail, long and pale, sweeps open to the right in a gesture that takes up almost that whole side of the board. The ground describes no place: it is a field of pale greens, greys and touches of turquoise, laid in with the same loose stroke as the animal, so that figure and air are made of one substance.

Below, the hooves resolve into dark patches and a trail of paint that serves as ground. The signature, long and calligraphic, crosses the lower right corner, with a second, smaller written line beneath it and a circular spiral motif that the line of the signature itself crosses.