Bouquet for Claude

$880.00

Oil pastel on paper. 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
2025, Sacramento CA

This work will be shipped in a rigid tube. It can be easily framed upon receiving.

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About Artwork

Bouquet for Claude sets up a still life, then gives it a horizon. A dense bouquet dominates the center, packed into a clear glass vase on a tabletop. The flowers are rendered with heavy oil pastel pressure—petals built from stacked strokes and rubbed edges—so the bouquet feels less “arranged” than accumulated. Reds and oranges lead, with yellow, white, and violet breaks that keep the mass from becoming a single block.

Behind the table, a landscape emerges: a sloping hillside on the left, a tall dark tree cluster near the center, and a low band of light opening to the right. The sky warms near the horizon and cools upward. This backdrop doesn’t compete with the bouquet; it supplies depth and a kind of historical lighting—an outdoor glow that makes the tabletop scene feel staged in front of evening or early morning.

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Artwork Specs

  • Medium: Oil Pastel
  • Material: Paper
  • Size: 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
  • Shipped in a rigid tube

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Bouquet for Claude, 2025. Oil pastel on black paper. 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)

The composition holds a quiet tension between what is near and what is far. The bouquet is tactile and immediate: stems tangle, blossoms overlap, and the vase catches pale reflections. The landscape is softer and more atmospheric, built from broader transitions and muted tones. That contrast echoes the stated reference to Claude Lorrain: not a quotation of his imagery, but an adoption of his structure—foreground objecthood set against distant light.

Then a small detail changes the temperature: a frog on the tabletop beside the vase. It’s quiet, almost camouflaged, but once you see it the work stops being purely decorative. The bouquet reads as cut, heavy, briefly held—color brought indoors, with the outside still clinging to it.

Keeper of The Valley, (detail), 2026.

Still life meets horizon: a bright bouquet dominates the table while hills and trees open behind it, frog included.

The flowers are the most saturated accent: reds, oranges, yellows, and blues packed into a thick, painterly mass. Their color concentrates the drawing’s heat and interrupts the figure’s stillness with something busy, cut, and abundant. The valley around him stays quieter—greens dragged in long strokes—so the background holds the body without competing for attention.

Bouquet for Claude, (detail), 2025.
Bouquet for Claude, (detail), 2025.