Olive Harvest — painting by Benjamin Smit

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Olive Harvest

BS·046 · African Landscapes · Earlier works

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Figures stoop among gnarled olive trees to gather fruit, a hillside town with cypress spires rising behind in soft haze. The painting is built from broad, flat passages of turquoise-green canopy and pale lilac shadow, lightly spattered to suggest flickering light through leaves. The harvest labour gives the scene its quiet rhythm, the workers’ blue and black clothing anchoring the foreground.