La femme de lettres - 12F - (oil on canvas). Print

"The portrait without model ..." The model for this portrait is a poor quality newspaper photography of small size : 3 x 4 cm printed on poor paper and yet the woman's face illustrating this written article was tremendously expressive. It was enough to suggest a painting. Will i be able to give an account with the painter's means of this strong and positive expression or at least not to betray it? It is about the artist and his "model" when "model'painting" is nowadays scarce, in a world where everybody's face is to be seen by everybody, in a world where the artist do not paint anymore in that classic manner. What's the point? Is it a meaningful to do that? I painted it two years ago. The article was about the Dr Laleh Bakhtiar and more particularly about her translation of the Quran. I learned that since this written article she died, a news that saddened me.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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