Vitaly Leshukov Soldatov (1968) - Provence

Pictura Galeria presents this magnificent work of art belonging to Vitaly Leshukov, depicting a small country cottage surrounded by fields and mountains under a spectacular yellow sky of multicolored clouds, evoking the energy, freedom and vitality of nature. The painting stands out for its excellent technique and the great pictorial quality it transmits. · Dimensions of the work: 41x33x2 cm. · Oil on canvas signed by hand by the artist in the lower right corner, Leshukov. · The piece is in good condition. The work comes from an exclusive private collection in Girona. Important note: the photographs included are part of the description of the lot. The work will be professionally packed by an IVEX expert (https://www.instagram.com/ivex.online/), using high-quality materials to ensure its protection. The shipping price covers both the cost of professional packaging and the transport itself. Shipping will be carried out by Correos or GLS with tracking. International shipping available. This painting presents a rural landscape transformed by an overflowing chromatic imagination, where a small country house appears surrounded by hills, vegetation and an extraordinarily bright sky. The scene starts from a recognizable natural environment, but the intense colors and undulating shapes turn it into an emotional universe full of energy. Radiant yellows, electric blues, deep greens, purples, oranges and reds intertwine to build a vibrant vision of nature, far from any purely descriptive representation. The small dwelling on the left side constitutes one of the main reference points of the composition. Its light facade stands out among the dark vegetation, while the reddish-orange roof introduces a warm note that immediately draws the eye. Despite its small size, the house possesses a welcoming presence and seems to offer shelter against the dynamic vastness of the surrounding landscape. The walls of the building combine whites, bluish tones, pale greens and delicate yellowish nuances. The windows and the door, defined by dark, cool tones, add depth and suggest a silent interior. The irregularity of its shapes gives it a humble and endearing character, as if it were an ancient dwelling fully integrated into the surroundings. The roof stands out for its intense combination of reds, oranges and yellows. Its slope leads the gaze toward the elevated vegetation behind the house and establishes a beautiful dialogue with the warm tones of the sky. This luminous cover seems to gather the strength of the sun and becomes a small nucleus of warmth within a composition dominated by strong chromatic contrasts. Behind the dwelling rises a group of tall, dark trees, whose silhouettes recall cypress trees swayed by the wind. Their vertical shapes, built with deep greens, blues and hints of yellow, break the horizontal movement of the hills. These trees function as a protective presence beside the house and, at the same time, introduce a note of mystery in the left area. The terrain surrounding the house unfolds through paths, fields and vegetative masses that seem to move continuously. The curved lines traverse the surface and create a visual journey that leads from the foreground to the distant mountains. The landscape is not still, but seems to breathe, undulate and change before the viewer’s eyes. In the central zone, a blue-toned path winds through the vegetation. Its irregular route begins near the house and descends toward the foreground, establishing a connection between the dwelling and the rest of the territory. This trail invites imagining a walk through the valley and acts as a symbolic door into the interior of the scene. On both sides of the path extend fields of strong chromatic intensity. The luminous yellows coexist with emerald greens, turquoise blues, purples and small reddish zones. Rather than being organized by rigid boundaries, these plots merge with one another, forming a living surface that transmits fertility, abundance and the changing force of the land. The lines that cross the fields resemble furrows, currents of water, paths or movements of vegetation under the wind. Their sinuous character adds dynamism and turns the lower part into a sequence of visual rhythms. Each curve seems to respond to the next, creating a sense of continuity that keeps the gaze in constant motion. The foreground is especially rich in colors and shapes. Deep purples, bright greens, intense blues, yellows and oranges cluster in vegetative masses that seem to arise with extraordinary vitality. The vegetation acquires here an almost fantastical presence, as if flowers, shrubs, rocks and grasses had fused into a single stream of color. The dark tones of the lower zone provide a solid base to the composition. Purples, navy blues and deep greens contrast with the yellow and turquoise sparks that appear among them. This alternation of light and shadow creates depth and allows perceiving the landscape as a wide space, full of elevations and hidden corners. In the distance, several rounded-hill profiles rise. Their forms are layered with greens, blues, purples and yellows, creating an attractive sense of depth. While maintaining the overall appearance of a mountainous landscape, their undulating contours give them an almost organic quality, as if they were large sleeping creatures under the sky. The mountain on the right side occupies a particularly relevant position. Its broad, winding volume balances the presence of the house and the trees on the left. The dark lines that traverse its surface suggest ravines, paths and folds of the terrain, while greens and yellows provide light areas that reveal its relief. Among the different elevations, small bands of terrain open up that lead toward the horizon. These intermediate spaces allow the eye to penetrate the composition and expand the sense of distance. The landscape seems to continue beyond the visible, inviting the imagination of new fields, valleys and hidden roads beyond the hills. The sky occupies a fundamental part of the image and becomes one of its most expressive elements. An intense, radiant yellow dominates the background, flooding the entire scene with light. This clarity is not limited to representing a specific hour of the day, but seems to express a sense of fullness, warmth and exaltation before nature. Over the yellow background unfold large clouds with undulating and capricious shapes. The blues, whites, pinks, oranges, reds and violets mingle in long currents that cross the sky. They are not static clouds, but seem flames, waves or swirls driven by an invisible force. In the upper left zone, celestial shapes descend in pronounced curves toward the trees. Their movement seems to envelop the vegetation and direct the gaze toward the house. On the far right, another large cloud ensemble spins on itself, generating a sense of expansion that extends the movement beyond the image boundaries. The relationship between the sky and the earth is especially intense. The same curves present in the clouds reappear in the mountains, fields and vegetation. Thanks to this continuity, all elements seem to form part of a single natural current, as if the air, the earth and the plants responded to the same impulse. Yellow is the great unifying element of the composition. It appears in the sky, the fields, the reflections of the mountains, the vegetation and some details near the house. Its luminosity transmits joy and vitality, while the purples and deep blues provide contrast, balance and a more mysterious dimension. Reddish and orange tones introduce warmth and emotion. They concentrate especially on the roof, the clouds and some fragments of the terrain, creating points of great visual intensity. The greens express the fertility of the landscape and connect the architecture with the surrounding vegetation. The absence of human figures intensifies the feeling of being before a remote and silent landscape. However, the house, the path and the fields suggest a discreet human presence, linked to the care of the land. One can imagine someone inhabiting the dwelling and daily observing this exuberant nature from its small windows. The scene conveys isolation, but not loneliness. The house appears protected by the trees, the mountains and the fields, forming part of an environment that seems to embrace it. Its small size in the face of the vastness of the landscape underscores the grandeur of nature, even though its bright roof and its light facade allow it to retain a warm protagonism. The painting can be interpreted as an exaltation of rural life and of the emotional connection with the territory. Nature is not shown in a distant or neutral way, but as an intense, changing and deeply alive presence. Each color seems to express a feeling, from the luminous joy of yellows to the contemplative depth of purples. There is also a mood close to dreaminess. The fiery sky, the undulating mountains and the almost fantastic vegetation transform the landscape into a place located between reality and imagination. The small house acts as a recognizable point within this universe and allows the viewer to imagine entering it and walking its paths. The composition possesses a powerful visual rhythm. The gaze starts at the dwelling, climbs the trees, follows the large curves of the sky and then descends through the mountains toward the path and the foreground vegetation. This circular journey reinforces the sense of continuous movement and keeps all elements closely related. Beyond the beauty of the depicted surroundings, the work transmits a deep joie de vivre. The intense colors turn nature into a celebration and fill the scene with optimism. Even the darker areas are traversed by small bright sparks, suggesting that light is present in every corner of the landscape. Overall, the work offers a vibrant, luminous and deeply emotional vision of a rural house surrounded by fields, vegetation and mountains under a yellow sky traversed by multicolored clouds. The undulating forms unite all the elements in a continuous movement, while the extraordinary chromatic richness transforms the landscape into a celebration of nature. The small dwelling brings intimacy and refuge within this energy-filled universe, inviting the viewer to imagine a serene life in touch with a fertile, free and color-abundant land.

Estimación:€400

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