"the Fire", Nocturnal Landscape By Gabrielle Ricard - Cordingley. Year 1967.

"The Fire", nocturnal landscape by Gabrielle Ricard - Cordingley.
Year 1967.
A nocturnal landscape with a fire in the woods, painted by Gabrielle Ricard-Cordingley (born in 1924), daughter of a well-known English naval officer painter George Ricard-Cordingley, born in Lyon.
Technique: oil on cardboard.
Signed lower right.
On the back of the painting there is the label of the 1967 Cannes exhibition with the painter's address in Le Cannet, a town on the Côte d'Azur which has attracted many painters due to its particular light, among which the figure of Pierre Bonnard stands out.
The expressive power of the painting is created through the rough surface of the painting and a contrast between the dark blues and the orange of the fire that is born in the heart of the woods.
The daughter dedicated her life and made several writings on the life of her painter father.