Mid-Century Impressionist Oil Painting signed Monhey

This item is an original oil on canvas or board painting, characterized by a heavy impasto technique and an impressionistic style. The composition features a muted palette of taupe, cream, grey, and ochre, applied with broad, confident palette knife strokes that create significant textural depth. A prominent signature reading 'Monhey' is hand-painted in a deep brownish-red pigment in the lower quadrant of the work. The signature is rendered in a stylized, cursive script with varying line thickness, suggesting it was applied while the base layer was relatively fresh. Physically, the work shows signs of age consistent with a mid-20th-century origin, including some minor surface abrasions and fine craquelure visible in the thicker paint applications. There are small areas where the underlying substrate or a lighter ground layer is visible through the top coat, which may be intentional to the artist's technique or indicative of slight surface wear. The craftsmanship exhibits a high degree of control over the thick medium, typical of decorative art from the 1960s or 1970s. The overall condition appears fair to good, with no major restorations or catastrophic paint loss evident in the provided view, though a light layer of surface grime or oxidized varnish may be present, softening the original highlights.