Yves Decaudan - Bleu sur braise

Portrait painting "Blue on Embers" - 2026
This painting is a work of great visual strength, playing on radical chromatic contrasts and an almost theatrical composition. Entitled "Blue on Embers", it belongs to an expressionist and modern style, where emotion takes precedence over the realism of detail.
The painting rests on a trio of primary and neutral colors: Red, Blue and Black.
Red evokes passion, suffocating heat or danger, while the blue of the dress and the sky brings a sense of freshness, calm, or spirituality.
The light seems to come from inside the colors themselves. There is no realistic light source, no shadow on the ground, which reinforces the dreamlike or symbolic aspect of the scene.
It is a work that does not seek to describe reality, but to make the eye vibrate through the juxtaposition of bold color masses. It captures a suspended moment, an "in-between" between day and night, earth and sky.
Painting by the painter Yves Decaudan - 1954
Acrylic on cotton canvas, wooden stretcher, unframed, dimensions 80 x 60 cm
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Shipped in a special painting carton.