A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

into a soft violet — done with the bold, uncomplicated strokes of a child working without self-consciousness — and the mountains were dark shapes at the bottom, imprecise and vivid and completely convincing in the way that children’s renditions of landscapes sometimes are, by virtue of going straight to the essential rather than fussing over the peripheral.continue reading …