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- Jun 26, 2012
Cards II
Stroganov Leonid- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 14 × 11 cm
- Year
- 2012
Two mirrored etching panels stack an armored, cross-emblazoned knight's head above a beaked, crowned figure, each image doubling and inverting like a playing-card court figure.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Classical Mythology · Fantasy · Figurative
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- Shipping
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EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
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- Returns
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About this work
Two vertical etched panels sit side by side, each split into an upright image above and its inverted mirror below, echoing a playing card's symmetrical court figure. The left panel stacks an armored, cross-marked head over a reversed hand and small face; the right pairs a crowned, beaked profile above a checkerboard floor with its own inverted double.
Warm sepia toning alternates with inky black grounds between the two sheets, and every surface, armor, crown, feather, floor tile, is worked in dense, obsessive hatching that flattens the figures into pattern. The doubled, inverted format gives the print a riddling, card-trick strangeness.
