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with a row of houses — offices and factories — in grey-green
and brick-red colouring. To the right were some workshops;
behind them rose the walls of some big houses against a rich
blue sky, with a few departing rain clouds, leaden grey in
colour, but shining white where the sun came through. There
was a strong light on the shops and the wall, and on the young
foliage of some trees in a yard. A few men, some wagons and
fruit barrows stood about in the street.
“I don’t know much about it, but is it not very good? I
think it is fine — it is beautiful.”
“When I was wandering about waiting for my own boy —
after walking here so lonely and sad many a spring before —
and saw the maples and the chestnuts opening out their tender
leaves against the smoky houses and red walls under a golden
spring sky, I wanted to paint it.”
“Where did you get the view?”
“Stenersgaten. You see, your father spoke about a picture
of you as a boy, which he kept in his office. I went down
there to have a look at it, and then I saw this view from his
office window. They let me stand in the box factory next door
to paint it, but I had to change it a bit — compose a little.”
“You have been a good deal with father, I see,” said Helge
after a pause. “I suppose he is very interested in your
picture?”
“Yes. He often came over to look while I was working on
it, and gave me some good advice. He knows a lot about
painting, of course.”
“Do you think father had any talent?” asked Helge.
“Oh yes, I believe so. The pictures hanging in your home
are not particularly good, but he let me see some studies he
keeps in his office, and I think they show a refined and quite
original talent. He would never have been a great artist; he
is too susceptible to influence, but I think it is because of his
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