The Witness, a painting by Isabelle Moreau Hamdan: a large white-line head with a sweeping laurel crown and curls on a deep taupe ground

Paintings / Figures & Presences

The Witness

Isabelle Moreau Hamdan

Medium and support
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
20 × 20 cm

A head fills the whole of this small square canvas, crowned with sweeping strokes of laurel and framed by curls that fall like drapery.

The features are reduced to a few decisive lines: almond eyes, a straight nose, a closed mouth.

Against the deep taupe ground, the white paint seems carved rather than painted, and the gaze holds steady.

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Close-up of the surface of The Witness by Isabelle Moreau Hamdan, showing line and texture
The Witness by Isabelle Moreau Hamdan, shown in a gold frame on an ivory wall

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