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“Here the whole body is blue, and we have not tried to explain it. It has rolled in on itself, knees drawn up, back rounded in a single curve that runs al…
€800 — Atelier Joconde
“Here the whole body is blue, and we have not tried to explain it. It has rolled in on itself, knees drawn up, back rounded in a single curve that runs almost from one edge of the canvas to the other. The face has hidden behind the arm; all that is left is an eye, an ear, short-cropped black hair. That eye is enough for us: it is looking at us. Around it, nothing but a flat yellow, warm as a wall in the sun. We worked the blue the way you work skin, lighter across the upper back, more muted in the hollows of the folds, until it breathed. At the waist, a few slightly darker creases mark the place where the back curves, and the hand holds the leg without gripping it. This is not someone who i…
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