École de Paris (XX) - The Toothache

- Oil on board.

- Few things are more instructive for human vanity than watching how aristocratic refinement yields unconditionally to the absolute ordinariness of anatomy. Here we have our distinguished lady, masterfully wrapped in a tunic of a blue almost mystical, whose body abandons every salon posture to sink into the earthly misery of a fierce toothache. Reclining on a comfortable armchair — the lone silent witness to her aristocratic lineage — the young woman rests her cheek on her hand with a gesture that could pass for existential melancholy if not for that vacant gaze and the complete nudity of her feet, which immediately betray the urgency of her torment. It is a brazen triumph of realism over etiquette: the irrefutable proof that neither the finest cosmetics, nor the most sumptuous satin, nor the most distinguished furniture offers any immunity when a humble tooth decides to rebel.

- Image dimensions without frame: 70 x 62 cm / 80 x 71.5 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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