Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

What you see

Ambroise Vollard sits facing us, legs crossed and hands clasped over his knee, his eyes lowered. He wears a greenish-brown suit, a white shirt and a dark bow tie, and has a beard and a high forehead. His body forms a pyramid that fills almost the whole canvas. Behind him on the left is a window with objects and reflections, and on the right, an orange-toned wall.

The suit is made of patches of green, brown and ochre separated by dark lines, like pieces of a mosaic. The face, too, is built from planes of pink, ochre and green. Seek out the white triangle of the shirt, which lights up the center, and for the blue circles in the window behind.