Reading by Lamplight

A woman reclines in a chartreuse-green armchair, legs elegantly crossed and extended, absorbed in an open crimson book. Dressed in black with red high heels, she rests one heel atop a tall, tilted stack of cream and ochre books beside a slender floor lamp whose shade glows with warm golden light.

Expressive, gestural brushwork and impasto highlights animate the scene, set against a scumbled olive-sage wall and a pale grey-cream floor. A portrait-format piece with a moody, literary palette of olive green, black, ivory, crimson and warm gold tones.

One artwork per selection.