Color breath, 2026
Painting : acrylic · 80 x 42 x 2 cm 31.5 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
$1,266
1 266 $US
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About the artwork
Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
80 x 42 x 2 cm 31.5 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
"Color Breath" is a vibrant contemporary floral painting by French artist Natalya Mougenot, an expressive large-scale still life defined by bold color contrasts, gestural brushwork, and emotional abstraction — a statement piece for modern, collector-focused, and design-driven interiors.
Subtle echoes of Henri Matisse may be perceived in the fearless dialogue of saturated hues and simplified form. Yet where Matisse pursued decorative equilibrium, Mougenot moves toward immediacy and pulse.
“I don't paint decoration," she says. “I paint presence." Her approach is less about harmony as arrangement and more about color as living force.
In "Color Breath", the bouquet does not sit quietly within the frame; it expands, almost inhales and exhales, as if animated from within. “A painting must breathe," Mougenot notes. “If it does not breathe, it is only surface".
A deep blue vase rises at the center of the vertical composition, outlined with luminous white strokes that define its silhouette without enclosing it. It feels grounded yet fluid, emerging from a radiant field of turquoise, emerald, and flashes of warm yellow. “The vase is not a container," she explains. “It is an anchor for energy."
The blossoms unfold through expressive circular gestures of burgundy, wine, rose, and electric pink. Rather than precise contours, layered strokes and vibrant linear accents suggest petals in motion.
“If the stroke feels alive, I keep it. If it feels controlled, I break it." The flowers appear to open in real time — vivid, spontaneous, slightly untamed.
Calligraphic sweeps of green and turquoise form stems that create a vertical current, linking the anchored vase to the flourishing bouquet. The background dissolves traditional spatial depth into an atmospheric field of layered blues and luminous undertones.
“I do not paint objects," Mougenot reflects. “I paint the energy around them — the invisible vibration."
Rooted in an intuitive and spontaneous process, her practice embraces a metamodern oscillation between structure and freedom, sincerity and chromatic boldness.
“Color is my language of hope," she affirms. “Even the simplest subject can carry light."
"Color Breath" is not a conventional still life, but a contemporary exploration of vitality and movement — a composition where gesture, contrast, and emotional clarity converge. It resonates with collectors of expressive contemporary art and interiors that value bold design, curated modernism, and works that radiate presence rather than mere representation.
Details:
Sold mounted on a wooden stretcher, with the sides painted as a continuation of the image.
Ready to hang upon delivery.
Created on high-quality French linen canvas.
Protected with gloss varnish to preserve its joyful luminosity against fading.
Sealed with protective varnish.
Carefully packaged and shipped from France.
Signed on the front and on the back.
Presentation
Natalya is a contemporary french artist living in Lyon.
She was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, the country known for its spacious steppes.
She arrived in France 2003. Since that moment she loves her adoptive country.
She started painting in 2017 and used it as a therapeutic and emotional release during times of crisis. She incorporates this therapeutic approach in her artistic creative process till now.
In her artistic practice she refers to the terms of metamodernism, which proposes to look at the world from the position of the inner adult.
As an artist and as a woman she translates the experience of her personal search for balance based on harmony between mind, soul and body. This balance, in her opinion, is the pillar for the inner adult.
Important components of her work are authenticity, soulfulness, sincerity, emotionality and honesty. She immerses the objects and the characters in the world where there is no falsity, rudeness, loneliness and indifference.
She works rapidly and is constantly sensitive to the details.
Her artistic process is a fine balance between a pre-meditation and spontantainty which helps her to create her expressive atmospheric artworks with a modern touch of impressionism by cultivating a naive art approach.
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