The Lightest Painting on Earth by Euan Uglow

Description :

indistinctly inscribed
pencil and oil on canvas
69.5 by 56cm.; 27¼ by 22in.
Executed in 1989-93.

‘It is about high daylight. There was so much light coming and she was so pale that she absorbed the light and just threw it off. I couldn’t make anything lighter unless you made everything black and that’s not the point at all’

(Euan Uglow, 4th June 2000, quoted in Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow, The Complete Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p.170)