Mid-Century Modern Expressionist Portrait of a Girl with Flowers

This original oil or acrylic painting on stretched canvas features an expressionist portrait of a young girl with dark hair, looking down at flowers. The artwork is characterized by a vibrant and somewhat surreal color palette, utilizing lime green for the skin tones against a backdrop of deep blues, oranges, and yellows. The application of paint is thick and gestural, with visible impasto and broad, expressive brushstrokes that suggest a mid-to-late 20th-century influence, likely 1960s-1970s. The artist uses black linear outlines to define the subject's features and the floral elements, giving the piece an illustrative yet emotional quality. The canvas demonstrates visible texture, and the painting is signed 'JOHNSON' in block letters in the lower-left corner. The condition appears fair to good; there is some mild scuffing and paint loss along the very edges of the canvas where it meets the frame or surface, and the canvas wrap shows slight unevenness. The craftsmanship highlights a confident use of color theory to create high-contrast focal points, particularly around the face and the orange clothing. The piece is unframed, exposing the raw canvas edges which show some minor staining and age-related yellowing.