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| The Yellow Dress, by Gustave Jacquet, circa 1896. |
Yellow is my least favorite color. Yes, it almost certainly is. And what a silly thing that is to say! An artist, of all people, saying that one color or another is his favorite or least favorite. Very silly. Yet I have no qualms about saying that yellow is the most
important color. Because I don't doubt that at all. Though there's almost never anything in my paintings that you would describe as yellow, I use that color in my work far more than any other. And if I understood anything about color theory, I could probably tell you why that is. I'm guessing it's got something to do with light. Uh... the way light reflects? Or... OK, I have no idea as to why I use so much yellow. I just know that I do. And here are some paintings of ladies by artists who've also used a lot of yellow in their work and who are not afraid to let you know it.
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| Lady in Yellow, by Susan Watkins, 1902. |
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| Lady in Yellow, by Giovanni Boldini, 1912. |
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| William II, Prince of Orange, and his wife Mary Stuart, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1647. |
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| Pauline in the Yellow Dress [the artist's wife], by Sir James Gunn, 1944. |
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| À la toilette, by Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, circa 1880. |
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| Emily Warren Roebling, by Carolus-Duran, 1896. |
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| Countess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Demidova, née Stroganova, by Robert Lefèvre, circa 1800-1805. |
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| Lady in Yellow, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1888. |
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| Lady at a Piano, by Vincent Dinty 1793. |
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| Simone Gentile in a Yellow Gown, Serge Ivanoff, 1954. |
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| In the Country, by Alfred Stevens, 1867. |
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| Grand Duchess Vladimir (Maria Pavlovna), by François Flameng, 1898. |
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| Princesse de Broglie, by James Tissot, circa 1895. |
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| Lady in a Yellow Dress, Max Kurzweil, 1899. |
