Cypresses Beneath Swirling Stars
Oil on canvas · Post-Impressionism
A turbulent night sky sweeps across the painting in looping bands of blue, silver, and yellow, with luminous stars and a large moon pulsing above a quiet village. A dark, flame-like cypress rises in the foreground, its vertical silhouette balancing the restless horizontal currents of the heavens, while rolling hills and clustered rooftops settle into the lower register. Thick, directional paint marks give the scene a charged, dreamlike energy associated with expressive late nineteenth-century landscape painting.