CALVIN
Evening Harvest, 2016
Oil, acrylic, and mixed media on canvas
Created in Lisbon, Portugal
Size: 72 x 48 in / 182.8 x 121.9 cm
Depth: 36 mm
Price: $1,050,000 USD
Evening Harvest marks one of CALVIN’s earliest breakthroughs — a painting where instinct, emotion, and form first found their unified language. Created in Lisbon, this work captures the artist’s raw emergence — the moment where structure began to breathe, and color became a vessel for memory and transformation.
The figure at the center is both human and mythic — a guardian, a witness, a self-portrait of spirit. Composed of vibrant hues of turquoise, vermilion, violet, and gold, the form radiates energy yet remains grounded in stillness. The surrounding darkness does not consume it; instead, it frames its luminosity like dusk embracing flame.
CALVIN’s brushwork in Evening Harvest is elemental — thick, unrestrained, and confident in its imperfection. Layers of oil and acrylic converge into a tactile surface where emotion is not represented but embedded. The strokes spiral and cross, suggesting motion and thought at once — a harvest not of field, but of inner soil.
Around the central figure, delicate motifs of leaves and stems emerge — symbols of renewal and spiritual growth. They root the painting in the natural world while hinting at something eternal beyond it.
Though executed years before the large-scale works that define CALVIN’s current practice, Evening Harvest already carries the emotional clarity and philosophical tension that have since become his signature. It is both genesis and prophecy — the quiet beginning of a voice that would come to define a new vision of Neo-Expressionism.
Valued at $1,050,000 USD, the price reflects not only the significance of its early period but also the energy and authenticity that make this piece foundational to CALVIN’s oeuvre.
Evening Harvest stands as a celebration of emergence — a meeting of color, form, and faith that foreshadows everything that would follow.
