Taking Things Seriously
![Philipp Fröhlich's painting Dornröschen [Sleeping Beauty] (226L), 2017, oil on canvas, 245 x 175 cm](https://philippfrohlich.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Philipp_Frohlich_226LDornroschen2017_245x175cm_oleo-730x1024.jpg)
A fellow painter saw this painting based on Sleeping Beauty in my studio while it was still little more than an underpainting and was particularly taken by it. I suspected he preferred this rougher state to the finished paintings, which probably seemed too polished to him. Months later we met again at an art fair […]