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Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "Le Piano" by Pascal Jarrion
Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "Le Piano" by Pascal Jarrion
"Le Piano" is an original oil on wood panel painting by French artist Pascal Jarrion, a still life built around the sweeping black curve of a grand piano and its keyboard. A pale blue bottle and the scrolled outline of a violin share the composition, layering several musical instruments into a single fractured arrangement.
Pascal's distinctive visual language draws on the still life tradition of early Cubism, breaking each object into interlocking planes while preserving enough detail, from the crisp black and white keys to the curved piano lid, for every element to remain clearly legible. The result feels both rigorously structured and quietly musical.
The piano dominates the composition, its glossy black lacquer rendered with visible texture and depth against the sharply angled white keyboard that cuts diagonally across the canvas. Warm sage green and tan planes fill the background, while a pale blue bottle and a violin worked into the left side of the painting add further variety of shape and color.
This gathering of musical instruments into a single still life connects directly to the language of early twentieth-century Cubism, a tradition built in part around exactly this kind of subject matter. Pascal continues that tradition here, balancing the geometric discipline of the composition with a warm, tactile surface quality throughout.
Measuring 20 by 16 inches, "Le Piano" is a well-proportioned painting suited to a music room, study, or gallery wall, and is presented in a black wood frame with a gold fillet. The painting is signed by Pascal Jarrion at the lower left.
