Silver olive trunks over a grass floor where labourers rest

Olive trunks in brown, violet and rose lean across the canvas, their crowns merging into a single silver-grey canopy that fills the upper two-thirds. Between them the grass is a hard acid green streaked with rose and dull red. Along the bottom edge a scatter of small figures rests in the shade: a standing man in a straw hat and white apron at the left, a group sitting on the grass at the centre, another leaning against a trunk at the right, with a wicker basket on the ground beside him. Signed at the lower left.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the leading portrait painter of his generation, born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris under Carolus-Duran. The scandal of Madame X drove him to London in 1884, where he painted the aristocracy and the great merchant families for two decades before abandoning commissioned portraiture in 1907 for watercolour, landscape and mural work. He travelled constantly — Venice, the Alps, Spain, the Middle East, Florida — painting in oil and watercolour with a bravura touch that was widely imitated and never matched. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tate and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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