Buy the two figures for the story. Keep it for the warm pink. This is a room-changer rather than a wall-filler: the soft curves and brick red pull the eye in, while the grey-green background keeps the whole thing quiet enough to live with. Hang it at eye level on a plain wall in a living room or study, or above a low sideboard where the vertical shape has room to breathe. It sits happily with linen, boucl, aged leather and dark timber, and it lifts a chalky off-white or clay-painted wall. Don’t crowd it with busy pattern or other figure studies one strong piece per wall is the point. As a canvas the matt surface suits the painterly, softly blended finish.