Signed and inscribed 'München', this watercolour by Carl Kessler (1876–1968) shows winter in the Klosters Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland. Published in Peaks & Glaciers 2021, cat. p.28.

Kessler was a specialist watercolourist of mountain scenery who worked throughout the Tyrol and the Engadine. Although his pictures seem deceptively simple and softly executed, the wide expanses of snow are formed of many subtle washes, graded to convey the distribution of light on the blanketed meadows and slopes. Kessler favoured clear, cold days, and his skies are often dappled with yellow ochre clouds.

Collectors of Carl Kessler's work and of Graubünden/Klosters Alpine watercolours will find this a large-format example of his distinctive snow-light technique.