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Four pencil sketches that Samizu Matsuki submitted to a patron, "Sisko", who'd commissioned her to create drawings for his villa on Chesapeake Bay in 1992. He had asked for paintings of "pretty women"; Samizu chose the feminine incarnations of the "Four Seasons", with Vivaldi's work as her inspiration.
At this time, Samizu was falling under the debilitating grip of Lyme Disease contracted while gardening at Maidstone Manor in Owings, Maryland, whose former servants quarters she was then occupying. She was not able to carry out this commission nor several others erquested by collectors Boris Vlalukin, Milorad Jeftich and Cristina Johnston.
What scenic paintings she was able to produce for her southern Maryland & Virginia patrons in 1991 and 1992 were so dark as to be post-sunset! Her drawings of Japanese dancers were executed in chalk and suffered less from the soul-darkening miasma of Lyme Disease than her oils of this era of Samizu's life
Samizu Matsuki was married to environmentalist Ron Huber at the time, thus the works are signed "S. Huber".
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