French Painting, Mixed Media on Paper by Michel Haas: Children and Mother

A mother bends to a child. Another figure bends toward them both, hand to chest.

Children and Mother is a mixed media painting on paper by Michel Haas, from France, ca. 1983. Mother and child is one of the great recurring subjects of art, valued for the way it can carry tenderness without any story attached. Large rounded figures, outlined in dark scrubbed strokes, fill the pale, mottled sheet. One kneels at the left with arms reaching toward a small seated figure. Another stands at the right, head bowed. A wood frame holds it, and a fine line divides the paper at center. Fifty-nine inches wide by 41 high.

Nobody here is looking at you. That is rather the point.