Roger Muhl -Abstract Coastline Landscape at Spring -Oil painting French Expressionist - Oil painting on Canvas - Signed Canvas size : 10x10" - Frame size 14x14x2" Description This captivating oil on canvas is a quintessential example of Roger Mühl’s celebrated "Provencal" period. Measuring 10" x 10", the work is an intimate yet powerful exploration of the Mediterranean coastline, where the rugged topography of the South of France meets the infinite blue of the sea. Artistic Vision and Technique Mühl’s mastery is most evident in his use of heavy impasto. Rather than merely painting the scene, he carves it—using thick, sculptural layers of oil to give the gnarled trunk of the pine tree a tangible, weathered presence. The interplay of light is dramatic; brilliant, sun-drenched creams and ochres on the bark sit in sharp contrast to the deep, cool teals of the shadowed canopy. The composition is elegantly balanced, utilizing the dark, sweeping silhouette of the pine needles to frame a vibrant expanse of cerulean water. This creates a sense of "looking through" the landscape, inviting the viewer into a moment of sun-soaked solitude. Provenance and History The reverse of the painting preserves its prestigious history, bearing the original gallery label from David Findlay Galleries on Madison Avenue—Mühl’s primary American representative. This connection, alongside the professional Los Angeles packing markers, speaks to the painting's journey through high-end coastal collections, underscoring its status as a significant work by a mid-century master of light and form. Artist Biography Roger Muhl (1929 - 2008) was active/lived in France. He is known for Painting, drawing, sculpture. Roger Mühl , born 20 December 1929 in Strasbourg , died 4 April 2008 in Mougins, was a painter , draftsman and sculptor French. He joined the National School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg where he graduated in 1948 to go to the territory of Belfort. He settled in 1954 in Montreux-Chateau and had his first exhibition in Paris at the Galerie de Paris in 1960. Then he went to Geneva, London, Milan, Dallas, Cologne, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Kyoto, Belfort and New York . He basically worked on the French Riviera. Of his painting, it was written: "He was considered a figurative painter of Provence and also of landscapes---a foremost painter of light and atmosphere. He used an impasto technique to establish the outlook suggested by the single color. " - Patrice Mühl honorary expert "I think that each subject has its own color. The key is to disengage, the most important is its ripening. It is not to live a color with a complementary or opposite, but by layers that give it its inner breathing, it must be sufficient and live itself. An important phenomenon: radiation, it is pretty much in the sensitivity of the artist, who at the time found that will capture ripening. It was at this time that the color acquires a certain expression of pure language. "