Poppies

What you see

A slope strewn with poppies runs diagonally down from the left and fills much of the lower half. At lower right, a woman with a blue parasol and a child in a hat make their way through the grass. Up near some trees, a matching pair appears, much smaller. In the distance, a line of trees and a red-roofed house close off the horizon.

The poppies are simple dabs of orange-red on muted greens, shrinking as they recede. The sky, which takes up almost half the canvas, mixes blue with broad white and grey clouds. Keep an eye out for the band of bright green in the middle distance, just behind the slope, and the dark signature in the lower left.