Vrouw in witte avondjurk met bloempatroon, 1914, No. D.34 1914

This watercolor and pencil piece by Price, from 1914, features a woman in a white evening dress, but it's the ruby red wrap that snags my attention. The washes of color, the paper peeking through – it’s all so immediate, like a sketch from life. Up close, you can see the pencil marks holding the form together, almost like a tailor’s chalk. But the watercolor, it’s where the emotion is. See how the red bleeds and pools at the edges of the wrap, creating this sense of depth and movement? It’s not about perfection; it’s about capturing a fleeting moment, a mood. It reminds me of Raoul Dufy’s fashion sketches, that same sense of elegance and spontaneity. In the end, it’s the artist's touch that makes this drawing sing. It's like a whisper, an invitation to imagine the woman, her life, her world.