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 It is a most satisfying and almost sculptural plastic object because you feel the tree is moulded. Maybe it is something to do with the way that Gainsborough used tableaux of moss and grass and soil and rocks to compose paintings - but whether he did, or he didn't, or whether it was in his mind when he made this painting, I don't know.
But what I do know is that it has a resonance and an overall abstract quality that again lifts it from... the picturesque elements are irrelevant almost, or consumed by the poetic vision.
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