3 Piece Lion Canvas Van Gogh framing the blooms with vitality

framing the blooms with vitality

sand and pale wood surfaces

painterly handling gives the whole scene a sense of sweeping motion and grandeur

scattered trees and small ochre buildings

Its warm tawny browns and muted savannah greens settle happily into earthy

3 Piece Lion Canvas Van Gogh framing the blooms with vitalityAt the centre of this triptych a male lion fixes the viewer with a steady, golden gaze, his thick mane caught in warm backlight that turns its edges to amber. The flanking panels dissolve into a soft bokeh of sunlit savannah, scattered with floating motes of light that echo the warmth around him. Every whisker and fleck of fur reads with photographic sharpness against the blurred wilderness behind. There is a calm authority in his expression, the