Enigma - The Apple Knows My Face

The Apple Knows My Face

I stand where the sea forgets itself, my face replaced by something green and ripening, a fruit that holds the world's gaze so I need not. A black coat drapes me like a quiet grief; a bowler hat crowns the absence above. Behind me, another painting breathes - a pale figure, orange fire, dark water pressing at its edges, brushed with loose, urgent strokes. The sky is soft, cloud-troubled, blue as forgetting. I carry no name, only this smooth, luminous weight where my eyes should be.

-- Dimensions: 80 x 120 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' acrylic 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.

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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.