Post-Impressionist School (XX) - NO RESERVE - White Village

WHITE VILLAGE UNDER A GRAY SKY

Catalan School, second half of the 20th century
Oil on canvas

• Artist: Signed at the bottom right; signature of uncertain reading

• Chronology: Second half of the 20th century, ca. 1960–1980

• School: Catalan

• Style: Skeletal Post-Impressionism / landscape synthetism

• Technique: Oil on canvas

• Support: Canvas mounted on stretcher

• Measurements: 33 x 55 cm

• Signature: Present in the lower right corner, difficult to read

• Subject: Landscape of a white village perched on a hill, with a plain and trees in the foreground

• Condition: Good overall; light signs of use and small irregularities typical of painting materials. Check photographs

• Presentation: Work offered unframed

-- The work will be professionally packed to measure and shipped insured to any international destination.

-- We work with a specialized logistics center, with preparation and distribution approximately within 3 days once payment is confirmed.

IDENTIFICATION

1.1. Typology and attribution

This is a landscape with clear Mediterranean sensibility, resolved with a synthetic language and a structural view toward architecture and territory.

In terms of style, palette and formal construction, the work can prudently be cataloged as a Catalan School piece from the second half of the 20th century.

1.2. Signature and stylistic localization

The painting appears signed in the lower right area, although the script does not allow a fully secure identification.

The landscape, as well as the character of the surname insinuated by the signature, strongly refer to the Catalan realm, probably within a tradition of landscape painting close to the Costa Brava or the Ampurdan coast.

ARTISTIC DESCRIPTION

2.1. Composition

The composition organizes space into horizontal bands: the plain in the foreground, the intermediate strip of vegetation, and the white village perched in the background.

The bare trees on the left act as a linear counterpoint and give rhythm to a view that is open, silent, and very balanced.

2.2. Color and material

The palette is sober and refined, dominated by grays, whites, cool blues and muted earth tones.

The artist does not seek meticulous detail, but the essence of the place. The houses are reduced to luminous blocks, while the painting material alternates flat areas with visible impasto that add vibrancy to the surface.

STYLE, SCHOOL AND ICONOGRAPHY

3.1. Pictorial language

The work is firmly framed within skeletal Post-Impressionism or landscape synthetism.

There is a clear will to formal simplification: the village becomes geometric, the relief is reduced to planes, and the vegetation is resolved with brief signs, at times approaching lyrical cubism or restrained abstraction.

3.2. Geographical affinity

The view of the white hamlet, the muted light and the landscape structure strongly evoke the Catalan Mediterranean world.

Without asserting an exact location, the scene recalls certain enclaves of the Costa Brava and the interior Ampurdan, where many Catalan painters of mid-20th century developed an essentialized and atmospheric landscape.

CONDITION

4.1. Painting surface

The work shows a good overall condition.

There are faint signs of handling and small texture variations inherent to the painting process, not compromising the reading or the overall appeal.

4.2. Support

The canvas is mounted on a wooden stretcher.
The reverse shows a simple and functional presentation, in line with a study or gallery piece of its time.

GUARANTEE, TRANSPARENCY AND SHIPPING

5.1. Prudent cataloguing

The work is offered as a Catalan School piece, second half of the 20th century, with an unreadable signature.
All attribution is stated prudently and based on the visible features of the painting, without exceeding the available material evidence.

5.2. Photographs and description

The photographs are an essential part of the description.
No claims will be accepted for visible aspects or explicitly indicated ones, such as the illegibility of the signature, small irregularities of the material, characteristics of the support or absence of a frame.

5.3. Shipping and conditions

The gallery works with a professional packaging company, custom protection and international insured shipment.
Any additional cost arising from destinations outside Euro zones 1 and 2, islands, remote areas, high-rate zones or non-EU shipments will be borne by the buyer.

CONTEMPLATION

6.1. A landscape reduced to its essence

This painting possesses a quiet, very Mediterranean quality.
It does not describe a specific place so much as an atmosphere: that of the white village suspended over the light ground, under a contained sky, with a economy of means that turns the landscape into memory, structure and light.