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River of the Dead
Solovev Mikhail- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 230 × 240 cm
- Year
- 2024
A triptych: the central panel shows a mass of nude bodies sinking beneath a boat, flanked by burnt and wooded cliffside scenes.
- Style
- Surrealism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Classical Mythology · Figurative · Forest · Water
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- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
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About this work
The center panel is filled with a tangle of pale nude bodies, men and women overlapping and sinking through dark water beneath the hull of a wooden boat crossing overhead. The left wing shows a row of blackened, leafless tree trunks over scorched earth, while the right wing shows a wooded rock cliff under a paler sky, both framing the drowned figures below.
Deep browns, greens and near-black dominate all three panels, with the bodies picked out in warm ivory and flesh tones that catch a dim light from above. Paint is built up thickly around the figures and rocks, thinning to smoky washes in the burnt trees, giving the triptych a heavy, funereal weight.
