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- Added
- Nov 22, 2015
In the mountains
Freya Mozes- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 × 40 cm
- Year
- 2015
Whitewashed village house with a terracotta tiled roof beneath cypress trees and hazy mountain peaks, rendered in thick impasto.
- Style
- Impressionism
- Mood
- Serene
- Themes
- Architecture · Landscape · Mountain · Village
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- Shipping
Economy: ~1 month
EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
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About this work
A single-story whitewashed house with a weathered terracotta tile roof stretches across the middle ground, its facade broken by dark window openings and a doorway where a figure in blue is faintly visible. Behind it rise dense cypress and pine trees and the pale blue-grey silhouettes of distant mountains under a chalky, cloud-streaked sky; a dirt track curves through the foreground.
Paint is applied with a palette knife in thick, ridged strokes that build the roof tiles and foliage into raised texture, using warm ochre, brick-red and olive against cool violet-grey mountains and a bright, sun-bleached sky. The rough, tactile surface and high-key light give the scene a sun-baked, quiet stillness typical of a plein-air study.
