Bidspirit auction | Tony Santacruz, Impressionist Garden Landscape

Tony Santacruz, Impressionist Garden Landscape with Bench, Oil on Canvas - This large-scale oil on canvas by Tony Santacruz depicts a serene springtime garden landscape. The composition is centered on a white wooden garden bench surrounded by blooming yellow and white daffodils. Slender trees with delicate, yellow-green foliage frame the scene, leading the eye toward a distant body of water and a hazy, wooded shoreline. The work is executed in an Impressionistic style, utilizing loose, painterly brushwork and a soft, diffused light to capture the airy atmosphere of the season. The painting is signed in red in the lower right corner Tony Santacruz. It is housed in an ornate, deep-profile gilded wood or composite frame featuring foliate relief carvings and a cream-colored linen liner. The verso of the canvas is marked 30 x 36 in pencil, and a previous retail label on the frame is inscribed #18 Santacruz $1700. Canvas: 30 x 36 inches Frame: 35 x 41 inches.