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A witch
Pavlov Mstislav- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 × 97 cm
- Year
- 2017
A dark-haired woman crowned with a leafy, flower-flecked wreath gazes intensely from a shadowy brown background, shoulders bare.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Portrait · Women · Figurative
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- Payment
PayPal, bank transfer, and Paysend are accepted.
- Shipping
Economy: ~1 month
EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
7-day return
Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
A dark-haired woman with a thick, tangled crown of hair studded with small red and yellow blossoms looks directly out with an intense, unsmiling gaze. Her bare shoulders and chest are rendered smoothly, giving way below to a bodice built from thick, dripping strokes of white, teal, and ochre paint against a plain, dark brown ground.
The face is modeled with careful realism in soft greys and flesh tones, while the hair and garment dissolve into raw, sculptural impasto with runs of pigment left to drip down the canvas. This contrast between a controlled, almost academic portrait and wild, gestural paint handling gives the figure a brooding, otherworldly presence.
