Oil painting on canvas. Frame width cm.1 depth cm.3. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Work featured in the Palladio Prize 2019 - Italian Portraits Exhibition catalog. Artist Biography: Thiene (VI), 1973 Sabrina Costa is an engraver and painter. Curious and creative, since childhood she has shown a particular predilection for drawing, especially for portraits, features that will remain unchanged when she reunites with art in adulthood. Despite her great passion, in fact, she follows a course of economic and financial studies, but the regret for something not pursued leaves her with a sense of emptiness, of unresolved, until in 2008, she decides to resume the interrupted path and begins a long journey. of exploration to discover oneself and the world of art. A lover of drawing, initially it is the sign that becomes the characterizing element of his works, but after a short time, the same is questioned as it is seen as too ordinary. From here begins an exploration aimed at looking for something that gives peculiarity and importance to simple graphite and thanks to which it encounters the fascinating world of engraving that gives it new impetus and enthusiasm. Having restored harmony with the universe of the sign, he resumes an in-depth study on the expressiveness of the face, now refining the technique of oil painting and trying to ensure that his works reveal something very intimate, the more I true hidden in the depths of the soul. The peculiarity of the women in Sabrina's works is the magnetic gaze, scrutinizing, at times almost disturbing, intensified by the surreal stillness of the atmospheres created with a skilful play of lights and shadows that are reflected on the faces of the protagonists and that bring back to the settings of the American artist Edward Hopper, much loved by her