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The portrait of unknown
Ryzhikov Dmitry- Technique
- Mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 40 cm
- Year
- 2017
A pale stylized face is set within a rough-edged square frame, surrounded by abstract torn-paper textures in blush pink, cream and ochre with fine gold thread accents.
- Style
- Decorative
- Mood
- Contemplative
- Themes
- Portrait · Abstract · Figurative
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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 softly modeled androgynous face with pale blue-green eyes looks out from a square, raggedly bordered frame at the center of the canvas. Around it spreads an abstract field of overlapping shapes suggesting torn or layered paper, mottled in blush pink, cream, rust and ochre, with a few curling leaf and stem forms and thin threads of gold scattered across the surface.
The palette stays warm throughout, with the portrait's cooler shadows set apart from the surrounding texture. Paint is applied in thin washes and dry, scumbled patches that mimic aged paper, while gold linework adds a gilded touch. The effect is quiet and contemplative, treating the face as a fragment set into a weathered, ornamental surface.
