Bidspirit auction | California School, Mid-20th Century, Coast

California School, Mid-20th Century, Coast Highway California Miniature Oil Landscape - A small-scale oil painting on plywood panel depicting the California coast, specifically the Pacific Coast Highway. The work is executed in an impressionist style with a thick impasto technique, creating raised, sculptural textures in the rocky cliffs and foreground shrubbery. The composition features a road curving along a steep coastline overlooking a turquoise sea under a sunset sky of yellow and pink. The painting is set within an integrated, hand-gilded rough-hewn wooden frame. The verso is inscribed in pencil with the words COAST HIGHWAY followed by CALIFORNIA. 5.5 inches (W) x 3.75 inches (H). The painting exhibits extensive craquelure throughout the sky and sea areas. There is visible wear, chipping, and loss to the gilded finish on the raised edges of the frame. The plywood verso shows surface dirt, pencil markings, and a small area of orange pigment. The white adhesive heart-shaped hanger on the back is deteriorated.