Knife Tomato I — Fine Art

Knife Tomato I by Richard Diebenkorn shows a painted field with a few drawn lines and small marks on a quiet ground. The brushwork uses broad strokes and thin pencil lines working on the same sheet. Richard Diebenkorn often worked this way, combining paint and drawing in one image.

This fine art piece comes with a frame in white, wood, dark wood or black. The frame gives the picture a clear edge on the wall. For this image, a dark wood frame keeps the painted strokes separate from the room around it.

It sits on a kitchen wall near the back door, where morning light falls across the paint strokes. From the doorway you see the big shapes first, then the small pencil marks as you pass by.