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Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "One More Blues" by Pascal Jarrion
Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "One More Blues" by Pascal Jarrion
"One More Blues" is an original oil on wood panel painting by French artist Pascal Jarrion, created in 2023. The composition centers on a saxophonist caught mid-performance, the musician's form dissolved into a dense arrangement of overlapping planes, curves, and angular fragments.
Pascal's distinctive visual language draws on Cubism, classical form, and Art Deco, reducing the figure to essential geometry while keeping a strong sense of motion and mood. The saxophone's curved body and keys emerge as the clearest structural anchor within the composition, with the player's face and hands built from the same faceted vocabulary as the instrument itself.
The palette is deliberately restrained, working almost entirely in cool grays, warm taupe, and deep charcoal, an approach that pushes the emphasis toward form and structure rather than color. Light and shadow are handled as separate geometric planes, giving the painting a carved, almost sculptural quality despite being a two-dimensional work.
There is a strong sense of late-night atmosphere throughout the piece, the kind of quiet, smoke-filled intensity associated with a solo performance winding down. The fractured picture plane keeps the eye moving across the canvas, discovering new details on repeated viewing, from the musician's bent fingers on the keys to the half-hidden shapes suggested in the background.
Measuring 36 by 24 inches unframed, "One More Blues" is a substantial work with strong vertical and diagonal energy, well suited to a music room, study, or as a striking focal point in a contemporary living space. The painting is signed by Pascal Jarrion at the lower right.
