Enigma - The Weight of Still Air
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Enigma, The Weight of Still Air, an original oil painting on canvas (100 x 75 x 2.5 cm) from 2026, hand signed with a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity, professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis with no frame, in excellent condition, from Italy.
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The Weight of Still Air
She sits at the threshold between interior silence and an impossible landscape burning orange beyond the window - a world she neither enters nor escapes. Her blue hair falls like cold water, matching the vast grey-teal skirt pooling around her as though the floor itself is slowly swallowing her stillness. A border collie watches with knowing calm. The wooden boards glow amber beneath her, mirroring the distant fields. Brushwork is loose yet deliberate - textured fabric, soft flesh, dreamlike depth. Something unnamed is being waited for, or has already passed.
-- Dimensions: 100 x 75 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.
UK SHIPPING NOT AVAILABLE. we cannot ship to the United Kingdom, as parcels are too often lost or returned.
Presentation images: the room settings in the presentation images are digitally created for display purposes and are not part of the artwork. The artwork is a one-of-a-kind painting on canvas, painted entirely by hand.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist working across dream, disruption, and wit - never settling into one mood or one way of seeing. Some paintings are quiet and symbolic, others catch a moment coming apart mid-motion, others turn a playful, knowing eye on art history itself. What unites the work isn't a single style but a single instinct: reality treated as something soft enough to bend, fracture, or reimagine - rendered always in smooth, luminous brushwork and bold, contrasting color. Every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
The Weight of Still Air
She sits at the threshold between interior silence and an impossible landscape burning orange beyond the window - a world she neither enters nor escapes. Her blue hair falls like cold water, matching the vast grey-teal skirt pooling around her as though the floor itself is slowly swallowing her stillness. A border collie watches with knowing calm. The wooden boards glow amber beneath her, mirroring the distant fields. Brushwork is loose yet deliberate - textured fabric, soft flesh, dreamlike depth. Something unnamed is being waited for, or has already passed.
-- Dimensions: 100 x 75 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.
UK SHIPPING NOT AVAILABLE. we cannot ship to the United Kingdom, as parcels are too often lost or returned.
Presentation images: the room settings in the presentation images are digitally created for display purposes and are not part of the artwork. The artwork is a one-of-a-kind painting on canvas, painted entirely by hand.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist working across dream, disruption, and wit - never settling into one mood or one way of seeing. Some paintings are quiet and symbolic, others catch a moment coming apart mid-motion, others turn a playful, knowing eye on art history itself. What unites the work isn't a single style but a single instinct: reality treated as something soft enough to bend, fracture, or reimagine - rendered always in smooth, luminous brushwork and bold, contrasting color. Every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Enigma
Title of artwork
The Weight of Still Air
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
100 cm
Width
75 cm
Weight
4 kg
Style
Surrealism
Period
2020+
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