Canal View at Wilders Square, Ole Ring, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (60 x 76 cm). Link is to Uno Langmann art dealers for a sold item. Presumably this is currently in a private collection.
Danish painter Ole RIng, active in the early to mid 20th century, here takes a simple white boat, and by careful placement and the arrangement of surrounding colors, makes it irresistible to our eye.
The boat is positioned on the canvas with the bulk of the hull just to the left of center and at it’s own height below vertical middle. Centered – but not quite.
He then places the light value of the boat against darker values, and muted orange-browns that serve to highlight the delicate blue of the shadow on the side.