Sapling Forest 1957-1958

  

oil on composition board 119.0 x 86.0 cm

    
      A sense of solidity and density mark these early landscapes. Here the tree-trunk motif forms leaning verticals on the picture surface, linking the painting compositionally, but also allowing the viewer a sense of the close-up experience of the bush.    
             

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