Enigma - Where Ravens Learn My Name

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Gallery Estimate  € 1,000 - € 1,200
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€150
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€120

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Original oil painting by Enigma, Where Ravens Learn My Name (2026), 120 × 80 cm on canvas, professionally hand‑stretched on a wooden chassis, hand signed with a COA, no frame, country of origin Italy, in excellent condition.

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Where Ravens Learn My Name

I move through a world that has forgotten how to be solid. The bandage across my eyes is not a wound - it is how I have learned to see more clearly, through the heavy blue folds that billow around me like weather, like grief made beautiful and weightless. A pale echo of someone walks beside me, unfinished, almost erased, and the ravens come willingly - they always do - settling where the air is still. The brushwork shivers at the edges of things, letting certainty dissolve into warm amber and cool slate, and I hold my hands open, asking nothing, offering nothing, simply continuing.

-- Dimensions: 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.

About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.

Where Ravens Learn My Name

I move through a world that has forgotten how to be solid. The bandage across my eyes is not a wound - it is how I have learned to see more clearly, through the heavy blue folds that billow around me like weather, like grief made beautiful and weightless. A pale echo of someone walks beside me, unfinished, almost erased, and the ravens come willingly - they always do - settling where the air is still. The brushwork shivers at the edges of things, letting certainty dissolve into warm amber and cool slate, and I hold my hands open, asking nothing, offering nothing, simply continuing.

-- Dimensions: 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.

About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.

Details

Artist
Enigma
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Where Ravens Learn My Name
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
120 cm
Width
80 cm
Weight
5 kg
Style
Surrealism
Period
2020+
Sold by
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