Title:
Deathly
Seduction
Year
Created: 2005
Medium: Painting - Oil on stretched canvas
Width: 1,200 mm
Height: 600 mm
Price - Original: £ Sold
Price - Print: £69 - 600 mm H x 1,200 mm W.
£49 - 300 mm H x 600 mm W.
Please note that these are unframed, signed, 'Open Edition Artist's Prints', printed at high resolution on heavy 225 gsm, Canon Embossed Art Paper, from my Canon gicleé printer, using UV resistant pigmented inks, hence they are lightfast. The sizes mentioned are rounded off so are approximate. Please see the Originals & Prints page for further details.
Description:
Produced in cooperation with Marc Haegeman (Thanks Marc).
"Uliana Lopatkina is a gift from God", said Vadim Gayevsi in Channel 4’s documentary ‘Dancing for Dollars’... Principal Dancer with the Mariinski Theatre's Kirov Ballet, her ethereal figure and outstretched arm, reaches with a sense of sadness, seduced by death, searching for the impending doom as the woman in white in her emotive rendition of Balanchine's gripping La Valse, one of his most innovative and vibrant ballets...
Both the ballerina and the plain black background are painted entirely with a knife. A high level of contrast is provided and the colours made extremely rich, bold and lustrous, thus creating a very contemporary feel overall.
It's a very large, very dramatic, emotive, moody and atmospheric figurative ballet painting that would not look out of place as a feature in a lounge, study, office, music room, conservatory, bedroom, hall, landing or similar room and be a focal point to be proud of.
See the image below of this artwork (Thanks Patrick) to get an idea of how it looks when framed and hung in the customer's home.
Contact myself for more information about this beautiful work of art, or if you would like to purchase a print. Obviously, the quality of the original painting and prints is much better than displayed here, though if you wish to make a closer inspection, please let me know of any specific area you're interested in and I'll e mail a higher resolution image to you.
Please see the below image of the beautifully framed original kindly sent by the collector (Thanks Patrick)
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