German-born American artist Wolf Kahn is best known for his colorful body of work that exists outside any one movement; a rich blend of Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Impressionist traditions. The present lot is representative of his later work in which he boldly used color while grounding the composition in recognizable landscape elements like trees, ponds and horizon lines. Louis Finkelstein describes Kahn’s ‘color statement’ as ‘constantly seeking the new color for skies, the new color for foliage, the color that has never been used there before...In his later paintings, he poses the aim of simplicity, clarity, and austerity against the complexity and daring of using colors that have never been used before, for that purpose and in that combination, pushing the envelope of description by the most extravagant effects’ (J. Spring, L. Finkelstein, Wolf Kahn, New York, 1996, p. 118).