Winter landscape

Exquisite oil on canvas, signed and dated 1959, framed in the aesthetic of André Derain's Fauvist school. The piece clearly manifests a stylistic evolution from post-impressionism to Fauvism. The foreground revolves around a group of trees defined by an extremely expressive texture and form; their twisted and gnarled branches generate a wintery and icy atmosphere that captivates the viewer and holds their gaze. The sinuous and silhouetted profile of the dark trees contrasts masterfully with the light emanating from small rural dwellings in the French countryside, visible at the end of the path under a vast and open sky.