"Venice by night"

Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

50 × 70 cm, 2024

Venice by Night is an original painting of Venice created with acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. In a deep nocturnal atmosphere, Venetian architecture, the canal waters, and reflections of light dissolve into a palette of blues, purples, blacks, and touches of incandescent red. A contemporary and atmospheric work that evokes the mystery, silence, and poetry of Venice after nightfall.

Venice by Night offers an intimate and almost dreamlike vision of Venice after nightfall.

The city appears in a dense twilight, pierced by a few flashes of light. Architectural silhouettes gradually emerge from the darkness: domes, facades, openings and structures are reflected in the water while a boat seems to glide silently in the foreground.

The painting does not seek to reproduce Venice photographically. Rather, it conveys an impression of it, that of a city transformed by the night, when outlines become uncertain and architecture blends with the reflections of the canal.

The deliberately dark palette is enlivened by accents of deep blue, violet, pink, and red , which appear as inner lights within the pictorial matter. The oil pastel allows for the introduction of traces, scratches, and more tactile passages, giving the surface an almost mineral presence.

This tension between darkness and light is at the heart of the work. Venice is no longer just an identifiable city: it becomes a space of memory, silence and contemplation.

Venice by Night can thus be viewed as a travel painting , but also as a contemporary work on the perception of a place. It speaks particularly to those who know Venice and wish to rediscover not a tourist image of the city, but its most mysterious atmosphere.

Created in 2023 , this original 50 × 70 cm artwork is painted with acrylic and oil pastel on canvas. Its horizontal format is particularly well-suited to a contemporary interior, a library, a living room, or a collection space where the painting can be viewed from a distance and then explored in detail.

Why this work is special

• A unique, original, hand-painted work .

• A contemporary and atmospheric interpretation of Venice at night .

• A particularly rich pictorial material thanks to the dialogue between acrylic and oil pastel .

• A dark palette punctuated with bright colors that subtly change depending on the light in the room.

• A work suitable for a contemporary art collection, especially for lovers of landscape painting, European cities and night scenes.