The glass of red wine

The glass of red wine
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Like this Anne - curious as to what the message might be?

Thank you, Heather! Well, there is no specific message, but I spent six months in Japan a few years back as a visiting professor in a Tokyo university. And Japanese students are very well-behaved and hard working, but they also party a lot during week-ends and have a fairly high consumption of alcohol. Now what they drink is mostly beer or fruit wine (peach wine, if I remember rightly), and whatever “regular” wine is produced locally is mostly undrinkable. But I wanted a red accent in the picture, so... So, basically, this is the portrait of a young Japanese partying...

Interesting - I saw this as 'temptation' … so I think I was right!

Well, Heather, plenty of people have proposed temptation and it makes perfect sense. But I have to own that I hadn’t thought about it like that: i just thought of a boy partying!

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07/07/2019
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A boy is sitting by a window on which a glass of red wine stands.

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Anne Reboul

I began drawing when I was about eight years old. I was trained at an art school in Paris, though my professional life has been spent in academic scientific research, where I had a very satisfactory professional life. I stopped drawing for about thirty years and began again in January 2018, when I…

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