Willow at the Gate (study 5)
A row of grey-green willows on a bank, with a grey-white hill behind and a pink sky.

Ion Șinca · The 2010 exhibition156 / 219

Willows

Sălcii

2010 · oil on canvas · 30 × 41 cm

A row of willows crosses the canvas horizontally, their rounded crowns painted in grey-green, ochre and cream in broad strokes, with slender black trunks tying them to a brown-violet bank. Beyond them the hill rises as a grey-white mass, its crests marked by strokes of thick paint. The sky, the upper third, is a smooth pink-grey surface. The foreground is bare ochre and muted green ground. The colour is held in close, broken tones; the work functions as a study of silhouettes against a light ground.

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Category · Landscapes

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