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- Added
- Dec 23, 2019
Matador 1
Smir- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm
- Year
- 2019
A bullfighter's silhouette dissolves into fields of scarlet and black, the structured jacket and brimmed cap barely legible through the haze.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Intense
- Themes
- Figurative · Men · Sports
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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 single figure stands in three-quarter turn, silhouetted in flat plum against a smoldering red-and-ochre ground. A structured, sharp-shouldered jacket and a wide-brimmed cap suggest a bullfighter's dress; one arm bends at the hip, the other trails a gloved hand. Body and costume dissolve at the edges into ragged patches of red.
Color is reduced to blood red, ochre and near-black, applied as flat, torn-edged fields rather than modeled volume, with heavy black contour lines standing in for detail. The handling is graphic and feverish, more blaze than description, giving the figure a smoldering, combustible intensity.
