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Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
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Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
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Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot
Original Documentary Women Painting by Sophie Pirot

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"Le deuxième sexe" Fine Art Print

Sophie Pirot, Belgium

$240

Material
  • Archival acid-free canvas
  • Laminated with protective lustre surface
  • Hand-stretched over 100% renewable solid pine stretcher bars, 1.25" thick
Canvas
Size
16 x 20 in ($240)
Select a Canvas Wrap
Black Canvas
Frame
No Frame

Archival-grade Materials

Fade-resistant Inks

Professionally Printed

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Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher, novelist, memorialist and essayist. Often considered an important theorist of feminism, notably through her book The Second Sex published in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir participated in the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. She shared her life with the p...

Year Created:

2020

Subject:
Medium:

Print, Giclee on Canvas

Rarity:

Open Edition

Size:

16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in

Ready to Hang:

Yes

Frame:

Not Framed

Canvas Wrap:

Black Canvas

Packaging:

Ships in a Box

Delivery Cost:

Calculated at checkout.

Delivery Time:

Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.

Returns:

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Handling:

Ships in a box. Art prints are packaged and shipped by our printing partner.

Ships From:

Printing facility in California.

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Sophie Pirot

About the Artist

Sophie Pirot

Belgium

My life course has relentlessly imposed evanescence on my mind.

The title of this artwork is:

"Memento mori: even cathedrals are not eternal."
My painting is as much to read as to see. It evokes the reminiscence of being. How to retain what escapes? Can we resign ourselves to oblivion - the very oblivion of famous women who, through their commitment, often their resistance, have marked our history? The title of the series certainly contains part of the answer.
It is thus well beyond the mimetic representation of portraits and bodies that I question memory. My painting is posed, in movement, stretched, faded, making any representation appear or disappear. All this gives an expressive dimension maintaining a barely revealed relationship with literature and photography...

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  • Artist featured in a collection

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