Retour Des Foins - Gérard Reynier (1940-2019)

Beautiful oil on canvas signed lower right by Gérard Reynier, a French painter renowned for his knife-worked landscapes of the South.

Entitled Retour des foins, this composition features a rural figure carrying a load of hay, moving through a rolling landscape dominated by an isolated building. Here, the artist forcefully and spontaneously captures the harshness of agricultural labor, in an atmosphere bathed in southern light.

The treatment is characteristic of Reynier, with a generous material applied with a knife, offering powerful impastos and a great richness of texture. The palette, composed of ochres, deep greens and contrasting blues, lends a beautiful luminous intensity to the whole.

An expressive work by Reynier.

An expressive and decorative work, representative of the modern Provencal school.

Technique : oil on canvas
Signature : signed lower right
Dimensions:

• Work : 61 x 50 cm (format 12F)
• Framed : 75 x 64 cm Condition : good condition, canvas and paint well preserved

Framing: modern molded wood frame, in good condition