Bleu paon
“She lifts her chin and looks down on us, eyelids half lowered, one hand at the base of her neck as if to make sure we are looking at her properly. The pe…
€1,200 — Atelier Joconde
“She lifts her chin and looks down on us, eyelids half lowered, one hand at the base of her neck as if to make sure we are looking at her properly. The peacock stands beside her and turns its head elsewhere. We wanted two prides that ignore each other. Apart from the skin, almost everything comes down to two colours, midnight blue and gold: the dress, the plumage, the background, the jewellery. We painted the face, the shoulders and the hands as closely as we could, then let the rest become pattern: squares, spirals, blue discs ringed with gold, the eyes of feathers. Look to the right, where her arm rests: you can no longer quite tell where the dress ends and the bird begins; the fabric fil…
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