One Potato Review

From 1949 – and a Frenchman, no less – here is a story about the joys, the limits, the transience of art, and the irrepressibility of the world it hopes to capture. Yeah, but Gerstein’s illustrations make this sing. If it’s true that every painting is at least partly a self-portrait, then the pictures of a boy growing old at the foot of a tree are especially poignant for an artist who has always waited for great stories to find him. With an explosion of sunshine and butterflies that is probably true to the moment that happens.