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Gallery Midnight

Tour de Soleil

Tour de Soleil

by Johny Midnight

The Tour de France peloton rides the horizon above a vast field of sunflowers - twenty riders closely knit against an electric blue pointillist sky. The France of summer, distilled into one image.

Limited edition fine art prints, hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Once the edition is sold out, it will not be reproduced.

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  • Artwork Description

    The peloton sits at the very horizon of the canvas - a tight band of twenty riders, jerseys bright against the flat French landscape - while sunflowers fill the entire foreground with saturated yellow, green and burnt orange. Above them, the sky is painted in a pointillist fashion: thousands of mosaic dots descending from deep blue at the top to a lighter, more luminous blue towards the horizon. The composition is deliberately joyful - a celebration of the Tour de France as a seasonal event, part of the French summer as surely as the sunflowers themselves.

  • Artist's Insight

    Every year when the Tour de France goes through the French countryside, you see field after field of sunflowers. They're everywhere. I wanted to paint that image - the peloton on the horizon, the sunflowers in the foreground, the sky above. The sky I painted in a pointillist, mosaic-dot fashion - it gives it a brightness and a vibrancy that feels right for high summer. The riders are closely packed, anonymous at that distance, but you know exactly what they're doing. It's bright, it's poppy, and it's very French.

Original Artwork Information

Artwork year created: 2019

Original artwork size: 100 x 75

Original artwork medium: Oil on canvas

Original artwork status: SOLD

Print Details

Gallery Midnight limited edition fine art prints are available in A2 and A3 sizes. Edition sizes vary depending on the artwork.

Edition Details

  • A3 Limited Edition of 100
  • A2 Limited Edition of 100
  • Printed on archival matt fine art paper
  • Hand-signed and numbered by the artist
  • Certificate of authenticity included

Framing

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Original paintings are typically presented on stretched canvas and do not require framing.

Please contact the gallery for framing advice or to arrange framing

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Packaging

Limited Edition Prints

All limited edition prints are carefully packaged in protective cardboard tubes to ensure they arrive safely and in excellent condition. This method protects the artwork during transit and allows the print to be professionally framed once received.

Original Paintings

Original paintings are typically collected from the gallery or arranged for delivery separately. Please contact the gallery to discuss shipping options for original artworks.

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About the Artist

Johny is a painter and founder of Gallery Midnight in Balham. His work is often described as “abstract on reality”, capturing familiar landscapes, seascapes and city scenes with expressive colour and movement. Influenced by a life spent between London, the Alps and the Caribbean, his paintings explore changing light, atmosphere and energy, inviting viewers to see well-known places in new and unexpected ways.

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