Celeste Rapone Waiting, 2026
Oil on canvas
71 x 61 cm (unframed)
73,7 x 63,9 x 5,1 cm (framed)
73,7 x 63,9 x 5,1 cm (framed)
Executed in oil on canvas, Waiting is suffused with an ice blue palette.
As her left arm presses against the lower edge of the canvas, the figure in Waiting tucks her left breast in the crook of her arm. Both flirtatious and awkward, a displaced floral nipple cover situates the exposed torso in-between assertion and vulnerability. Rapone set the portrait in an idyllic, almost pastoral, mis-en-scène. A slim twig frames the figure’s head elegantly, a nightingale rests next to a handful of crimson red berries.
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