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- 360
- Added
- Jul 3, 2020
The mask
Shumkin Anatoly- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 × 43 cm
- Year
- 2020
A pale, mask-like face emerges from streaked pigment, with shadowed eyes and an open mouth, framed by dripping orange, blue and black paint.
- Style
- Expressionism
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Portrait · Figurative
Purchase & delivery
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- Payment
PayPal, bank transfer, and Paysend are accepted.
- 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 pale, mask-like face fills the canvas, its features built from thick ochre and grey pigment: hollow shadowed eyes, a flattened nose, and a dark open mouth. The head tilts slightly downward, framed by streaks of orange above and pools of cobalt blue below, as if dissolving into the surrounding field.
Heavy impasto and knife work define the face, warm ochre set against cool ultramarine drips, with bruised greys and off-whites for the flesh. Thin vertical runs of paint fall like rain across the surface, giving the mask a decayed, unsettling presence in a rough, expressionist handling of the medium.
