Unknown artist - Alberto Ricardo

Artwork created on professional canvas using the giclée printing technique on canvas. Digital art using contemporary media and AI.

Artwork by the artist Canvas Fit-Alberto Ricardo created using Giclée print technique on high-quality professional canvas, 100% cotton, highly resistant to handling and external agents, from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy brand, satin finish.
We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Painting with dimensions of 60 x 80 cm and a depth of 5 cm.
Limited edition 2/5
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In an atmosphere imbued with nostalgia and mystery, this giclée captures a suspended moment between the past and the imagination. The scene takes us to an intimate corner, barely lit by a warm light that caresses the central figure: a woman seated in a wooden chair, dressed in a dark blue spaghetti-strap blouse and a light, airy skirt that barely covers her crossed legs. Her expression is firm and serene, with her gaze slightly raised, as if the viewer had interrupted her reading without warning. In her hands she holds a newspaper, resting open on her lap, containing headlines and photographs that recall a bygone era, possibly the 1950s.

The figure powerfully evokes the presence of Marilyn Monroe, not only because of her platinum blonde hairstyle and full lips painted red, but also because of the confident and seductive stance, that blend of sensuality and melancholy that made her an eternal icon. The painting, with realistic technique and loose brushwork, offers an oily finish that adds texture to the scene, especially in the skin reflections and in the abstract backgrounds that suggest, rather than define, a domestic and artistic environment. On the left, against the dark wall, hangs a second figure, this time depicted inside the painting within the painting: a more schematic female figure, rendered with expressionist strokes, who also seems to gaze out from the painted world.

This second character, the figure of the painting hanging on the wall, creates a curious game of double gazes. While the seated woman looks at us, her painted counterpart observes in another direction, more introspective, wrapped in warm colors and blurred shapes. It is as if both figures were reflections of a single divided essence: one alive and conscious of her body and her moment; the other, a static echo, trapped in a forgotten brushstroke, yet still charged with memory.

The contrast between these two figures—the realist woman and the abstract woman—intensifies the duality between presence and absence, between the tangible and the symbolic. This duality turns the work into a scene charged with poetic tension: a silent dialogue between two versions of femininity. One represents desire and the flesh, the other memory and art.

This giclée, in its flawless execution, achieves more than an aesthetic representation; it offers a meditation on time, glamour, solitude, and the gaze. The spectator, an accidental witness to this frozen moment, not only observes the woman, but also becomes part of the game of glances. She reads, but also watches. And we, as we look, are read by her.