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Ray Patrick
Aqua Palms, 2026
Oil on canvas
72 × 36 in. (182.9 × 91.4 cm)
Unframed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$2,400 shipping charged separately
Ray Patrick
Oil on canvas
72 × 36 in. (182.9 × 91.4 cm)
Unframed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$2,400 shipping charged separately
Palms seen against a dark, mottled ground, their crowns picked out in pale yellow-green and their trunks running the full height.
Twelve or more trunks are spaced across the width at uneven intervals, the crowns at staggered heights so no two line up. The composition is a rhythm rather than a scene; there is no ground plane and no sky.
An extraordinary reversal — the palms are the LIGHT and the ground is dark. Chartreuse and lime crowns against a ground of rust, copper and deep ultramarine, the two meeting without transition.
The ground is worked in layers and allowed to pool and mottle, with spatter and dragged passages left in. The palms are laid over it as flat opaque shapes, their fronds struck out with a loaded brush.
Oil. Flexible unstretched support, with creases running through the paint film. Thin and layered rather than impasted.
No signature visible within the painted area.