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- Added
- Mar 5, 2022
Fading memory
Kopeliovich Milada- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 80 cm
- Year
- 2022
A grayscale close-up portrait of a man in a soviet-style field cap with a small star, its surface streaked with paint drips.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Melancholic
- Themes
- Portrait · Men · History
Purchase & delivery
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- Payment
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- 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 man's face fills almost the entire canvas, shown frontally beneath a soft military-style cap marked with a small metal star. His expression is fixed and worn, deep-set eyes looking directly outward, with heavy shadowing carving the cheeks and brow. Long vertical drips of paint run down from the cap and across the face and background.
Rendered almost entirely in grays, blacks and warm off-whites, the portrait relies on scraped, dry brushwork and dripping washes that partly dissolve the features. The dripping paint reads as erosion or fading, giving the tightly cropped head a worn, ghostly quality, half emerging from and half sinking back into the dark ground.
