Picchetti winery with Gauguin's red-leafed tree Painting

This landscape started in December 2008 as a plein air study at Picchetti winery in Cupertino. Some landscape studies fully resolve themselves right there en plein air; you bring them home, look at them some time later, and they seem to retain all the freshness and strength of the experience. It's always a joy to see it, but it doesn't happen all the time, and it didn't happen with this one. It looked bleak, chalky, its color weak and bleak, not even close to what I had seen and hoped to convey. I haven't discarded it right away, though, because there seemed to be some life in it, some unfulfilled promise -- yet I didn't have the slightest idea of how to revive it. The solution came to me only three years later, as a part of my "Structures and Quotes" series: it turned out that what the landscape needed was an injection of Paul Gauguin. The most directly quoted work by Gauguin here is "Lane at Alchamps, Arles" (1988), but the quote endowed the whole painting with the power of color it's been so pitifully lacking.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 16 H x 0.2 D in

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