The work
5 November 1972, in coloured pencil: a bare tree with red branches, a full red sun behind the branches, and in the foreground a great crumpled ochre leaf casting a long shadow across the bluish field.
Autumn is a word that will stay with her — it will return in titles for thirty years, in a design for a disc, in a sky painted in oil in 2007 — but this sheet is the first time, and the simplest: a tree, a sun, a fallen leaf.