European School (XX) - Selfportrait with Cigar

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- It possessed in her a cosmic, greasy voracity, the kind of shameless intoxication that mocks bourgeois prudence and spits on good manners with the tip of a tight cigarette burning between her teeth. Beneath that enormous wide-brimmed hat that looked like a fragment of night fallen onto her brow, her face shone with sweat, dense smoke and wild sensuality, foreign to any salon delicacy; she was the embodiment of pure excess, a private bacchanal where the blue fabric barely covering her chest became a mere accident before the total surrender of the flesh. There was no romance in her half-closed gaze, but a raw, animal clarity, the absolute certainty that life is savored only when consumed to the filter, in that lawless territory beyond eroticism where liquor, insolent laughter, and vice fuse into a single electric orgy of irredeemable freedom.

- Image dimensions without frame: 14 x 22 cm / 32 x 40 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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