Adolf Reich, In Thought Beige Medium Oil on canvas

Medium Oil on canvas

a lone traveller is walking home along a path worn by time

115 achieved for ‘Bal Tabarin’ (51cm x 65cm) in 2007

The artist has used a gentle muted palette and focused on three meandrous trees

but the paint layer is stable

Adolf Reich, In Thought Beige Medium Oil on canvasA skilfully rendered portrait of an older gentleman by Austrian artist, Adolf Reich (1887 1963). While resting his bearded chin on his right hand, the subject looks ponderously across the rims of his rickety old spectacles. Reich possessed an extraordinary ability to capture the smallest of details with the utmost of care and his style was entirely traditional. In 1916, he attended the Academy of Arts in Vienna and elected to paint in a classical