École Européene (c.1950) - La Fête des Mères

- Oil on canvas. Original fabric.

- Under the wallpaper of fifty-year-old camellias that already smell of an old attic and bourgeois mourning, this provincial bourgeoisie — mother and daughters frozen in a cardboard-paste oil painting — presides over a domestic altar where nostalgia becomes inventory, a lyrical disorder of bottles of antique perfume, yellowed letters with stamps from another era, and vases crowded with withered roses exhaling the languid perfume of a silly and old nation, the one with music boxes, silver brushes with erased monogram, and time that does not pass, slowly rotting among lace and dust of the salons.

- Image dimensions without frame: 79 x 112 cm / 88 x 121 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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