Still Life with Orange Blossoms – Original Oil Painting

Description
This radiant oil painting captures an exuberant still life brimming with expressive color and vitality. A vibrant bouquet of marigold and crimson blooms fills two contrasting vessels—a tall reflective pitcher and a robust white jar adorned with blue and ochre motifs. The background reveals a decorative wrought-iron pattern against a sunlit turquoise wall, evoking a Mediterranean veranda awash in light. Executed with bold, angular brushstrokes and rich impasto, the work embodies a synthesis of Fauvist exuberance and Post-Impressionist harmony. The painter’s dynamic handling of pigment emphasizes color as emotion, balancing vivid oranges and cobalt blues with soft lavender and pale peach tones. This composition radiates warmth and joy, transforming a simple floral subject into a celebration of light, texture, and form.

Artist
Artist unknown at present.

Artist Details
Although the author remains unidentified, the painting’s technique and aesthetic align with mid-20th-century Spanish modernism. The use of saturated color, expressive brushwork, and decorative composition suggests influence from Mediterranean schools that bridged Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. The reverse bears a stamp from Vicenç Fiera, Barcelona, indicating regional provenance.

Movements
Post-Impressionism

Artist Influenced by
Influenced by Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Spanish modernist painters of the Noucentisme circle.

Frame Condition
Presented in a molded wood and stucco frame with a silver-toned patina, showing minor wear consistent with age and adding to its vintage charm.