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Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 807).
The London Standard on 31 January 1881 praised this pastel highly:
'The general favourite will probably be "The Riva, Sunset, Red and Gold." You are looking along the water towards the horizon sky, where its oolours are deepest — a mingling of many little clouds, red, orange, purple and blue — the dancing water catching the red and the gold. Not much work has been required to convey the effect that was observed, but it has been faultless work. Its few strokes are all frank and visible; there is not a touch that does not tell, and not one that can be harmlessly removed.'
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