Title:
Dedication to a Performance
Year
Created: 2006
Medium: Painting - Oil on stretched canvas
Width: 1,200 mm
Height: 600 mm
Price - Original: £ 1,165 (Unframed)
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 Mikhail Rashkovsky (Thanks Mikhail).
Soloist Ballerina Egle Spokaite performs as famed athletic Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva in Boris Eifman's mythologized Red Gizelle. Her Dedication to a Performance passionately expressed as is her trademark.
Both the ballerina and the 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.
Contact myself for more information about this beautiful work of art, or if you would like to purchase it. 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.
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