Abstract Landscape, Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas — Floater Frame

A commanding abstracted landscape built on a heavily textured ground — storm-weighted sky holding the upper two-thirds of the composition, a thin treeline dissolving into the horizon, and the lower register reading as banded geological strata in umber, teal, and chalk white, with a buried seam of deep burgundy surfacing at the lower right. The surface texture is a primary material: pigment appears mixed with sand or aggregate, giving the sky its pocked, rain-soaked weight and the foreground its sense of ancient layering. The palette is deliberately spare — slate gray, muted teal, raw umber, bone white — every tone earning its place.

Ex-collection George and Martha Harris, Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Harrises lived in Paris from 1985 to 1991, during which time George Harris served as liaison officer between the French Ariane Space organization and Intelsat — a period and milieu consistent with the acquisition of European contemporary art. The work is unsigned and unattributed; consignor has suggested possible connection to Jacek Sienicki or James Coignard, neither of which is confirmed. 

CONDITION Good, Craquelure Throughout. The network of surface cracking runs consistently across the painting and appears intrinsic to the heavily built-up medium rather than evidence of structural failure. No active flaking or paint loss is visible.

DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS

• Visible (canvas): 23.5" × 49"
• Overall (framed): 24.5" × 50"
• Medium: Oil and mixed media on canvas (aggregate texture evident)
• Frame: Walnut-toned wood floater frame
• Signature: None visible
• Provenance: Ex-collection George & Martha Harris, Las Cruces, NM