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Catherine the great (2024) Original Oil Painting by Nicolas Maureau
97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
$3,461.7
Original artwork description
A black disco ball standing in for the imperial orb, a bouquet mixing chamomile and red carnations: Catherine the Great, from the En Majesté series, summons Empress Catherine II's shadow to see how far it still reaches into our imagination.
Dressed in an emerald gown, the figure embodies a frozen, almost enigmatic power, solemn and faintly disturbing at once. The disco ball trades the orb's solemnity for something closer to joyful sovereignty, while the flowers carry their own quiet history, chamomile for eternal Russia, red carnations for the USSR, a bouquet that links monarchy and revolution without choosing sides.
The painting plays on the ambiguity of its own signs, past folded into present, asking what survives of a form of power once its symbols force meaning several things at once. Silent, but loaded with tension and historical echo.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
A black disco ball standing in for the imperial orb, a bouquet mixing chamomile and red carnations: Catherine the Great, from the En Majesté series, summons Empress Catherine II's shadow to see how far it still reaches into our imagination.
Dressed in an emerald gown, the figure embodies a frozen, almost enigmatic power, solemn and faintly disturbing at once. The disco ball trades the orb's solemnity for something closer to joyful sovereignty, while the flowers carry their own quiet history, chamomile for eternal Russia, red carnations for the USSR, a bouquet that links monarchy and revolution without choosing sides.
The painting plays on the ambiguity of its own signs, past folded into present, asking what survives of a form of power once its symbols force meaning several things at once. Silent, but loaded with tension and historical echo.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 97 x 130 x 2cm / 97 x 130cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
