The Great Thirteenth
About this painting
- Year
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 70×50 cm
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Cycle
- Outside any cycle
Description
A toucan with thirteen rings, a black mantle like the sum of clergy, the irony of the number — must every finger bear a mark of power? A figure with a woman's body in a dark-brown fur mantle with a red kerchief and the head of a toucan with a blue-and-yellow beak holds her fingers, all set with multicoloured jewelled rings; the background a deep dark brown.