Marie by Alfred Currier

Oil on canvas — impasto. A figure in yellow ochre stands in a cadmium red poppy field; blue-grey mountains rise behind. Currier uses the same horizontal band structure here as in his large landscape work — a person in the middle ground rather than a barn. Primary colors, earthy undertones, dark hair as the only low-key note. The person is specific; the landscape is context. Oil on canvas. $950. International shipping available.