Oil painting
The Queen of Spades
Original title: Dame de pique
A stage set: a St Petersburg garden under one enormous red umbrella.
The earliest dated canvas in the catalogue (1996). Wrought-iron railings, gilded statues, a palace behind, small figures in period dress: it is hard not to think of the Summer Garden where Pushkin’s tale, and Tchaikovsky’s opera, begin, storm and all. The umbrella, beaded with rain, is held from below by a hand with red nails. The Countess is still running the game.
Price on requestunique piece
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 105 × 75 cm
- Year
- 1996
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
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ViewingThe work can be seen at the Fontainebleau studio, by appointment.
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.
