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- Jun 18, 2016
Jester
Hefferlin Melissa- Technique
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 66 × 78 cm
- Year
- 2016
A fair-haired youth in a parti-colored jester's cap with bells gazes steadily outward, a red-beaded necklace over a white ruffled collar.
- Style
- Realism
- Mood
- Contemplative
- Themes
- Portrait · Figurative · Fantasy
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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
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Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
A young performer with long blond hair looks directly at the viewer, wearing a jester's cap split into blue-violet, magenta and teal points tipped with small silver bells. A string of red beads sits at the throat above a loose white blouse rendered in broad crosshatched strokes. The face is modeled with careful naturalism, in contrast to the loosely worked costume and background.
Pastel is applied in dense, directional hatching, with warm ochre and rust strokes vibrating across the brown ground. Skin tones are built from soft pinks and ochres blended smoothly, while the cap and collar keep loose, energetic marks of pure color, giving the portrait a quiet, watchful intensity.
