Pale Yellow, Pink and Brown — Fine Art

Pale Yellow, Pink and Brown - 1971 lays broad painted bands across the sheet. The pale yellow and pink sit near the brown, and the colour field edges stay soft. John Hoyland often built these fields in layers, and the marks here read as open colour shapes rather than figures. The white frame gives the picture a clean border on the wall, and the pale tones read quietly against the wood edge.

The fine art print goes straight onto a nail. You see the big flat colour shapes first, then the small shifts between one band and the next.

From the desk in the study the pale yellow band catches the lamp light, and the brown band stays dull at the far edge.