The Gardener

A man in a white shirt and blue trousers bends over a vegetable plot, seen against a wall of sunlit foliage, with two slender tree trunks at the left edge. The figure is caught mid-motion, back rounded, one arm reaching down to the earth.

Painted on a wooden panel little bigger than a hand, the picture is built from short, crossing strokes of yellow-green, blue and violet that flicker in the light. It reads at once as a study made outdoors and as a complete composition.