E. García - El caballo azul XL (no reserve)

THE BLUE HORSE is a 70x100 cm painting by contemporary artist Ernest García. This work features a horse in an intense blue color set in an imaginary and synthetic landscape, built from simplified shapes, defined outlines, and a vibrant, strongly decorative palette. The scene blends nature, symbol, and color into an image with a strong visual impact.

The composition centers on the horse, shown in an elegant and gathered pose, with one front leg raised. Its silhouette dominates the surface of the canvas and is cut out against a background of undulating hills, a lake or stretch of clear water, a stylized treetop, and an orange sun suspended in a pink sky. The entire landscape is reduced to broad, curved planes, which provides formal clarity, rhythm, and a almost poetic sense.

Color is the true protagonist of the work. The deep blue of the horse contrasts sharply with the pinks of the sky, the yellows of the ground, the greens of the vegetation, and the purples of some landscape planes. This chromatic tension creates a vivid, luminous, and very contemporary image, where each color area seems designed not only to describe but also to provoke emotion. The white outlines that separate the forms reinforce the graphic character of the composition and give it a very singular decorative feel.

Ernest García’s brushwork here is more restrained in some areas, although still visible and tactile, especially on the surface of the horse and in the fields of color. The simplification of shapes and the freedom of color place the work in dialogue with Fauvism and with a sensibility akin to Matisse or Derain, as well as with a more symbolic and modern view of the animal in art. The result is an image that does not seek realism, but an emotional and plastic truth.

The horse, traditional symbol of energy, nobility, freedom, and beauty, appears here transformed into an almost mythical presence. Its blue color distances it from the natural world and places it in a dreamlike territory, where the animal figure becomes an emblem of sensitivity, inner strength, and elegance. The landscape, reduced to essential signs, acts as a setting of serenity and contemplation.

The blue horse is a work especially attractive to collectors interested in contemporary figurative painting, horses in art, colorful painting, decorative art, Fauvism, symbolism, imaginary landscapes, Henri Matisse, André Derain, animals, Mediterranean painting, and modern compositions of strong chromatic intensity.



Authenticity and Shipping:
The work is offered directly by E. García, ensuring its authenticity with a certificate signed by the artist himself. The painting will be carefully rolled and protected inside a sturdy cardboard tube for shipment. After payment confirmation, a period of three days is required to prepare the piece and send it. Delivery time will depend on the destination, with a maximum period of up to ten business days.