Jeanne Mathieu (1913-1976) - À la mémoire de Piotr Ilitch

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Hand-signed. Closed on the back.

- The violin lies exhausted on the table, a noble-wood castaway among the bourgeois order of porcelain and the languid scent of flowers, still vibrating with the echo of that indecent sentimentality that is the Tchaikovsky concert. There is something almost cheesy, an emotional obscenity, in the way the instrument rests after having served as a channel for pain so unbearable that it borders on pathological; it is the residue of a passion that is crying out, a lament that in the hands of a suicidal spirit — in the feverish Szimanowski style — ceases to be music and becomes a visceral shriek. In the dark belly of that object lives an abyss of unspeakable anguish, the memory of a string stretched to the edge of collapse to translate the unconfessable, reminding us that beauty, when true, is always a little unbearable and cruel.

- Image dimensions unframed: 59 x 72 cm / 70 x 83 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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