SmileKayleigh
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on stretched canvas
- Size
- 120 × 80 cm, 2 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Kayleigh Swenson
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€1.150
Sold
This one found a wall. There was only ever one of it.
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Returns 14 days ▪ you pay the return
Signed front and back ▪ there is no second one
Certificate of authenticity, in my own name
Painted in Boekel ▪ insured worldwide ▪ unmarked box
Where it lets go
This one came apart while I was making it.
Somewhere in the middle of it the paint stops describing anything and simply becomes paint. It is the loosest thing I have made and I did not aim for it, because I never aim for anything.
Find the place where it lets go. I cannot tell you where it is without ruining it.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Kayleigh Swenson (@vikingbarbie). One of four canvases of Kayleigh. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.
Buying is the easy part
The photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.
Ordering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.
There is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.
In a room
An impression of Kayleigh (Smile) in a room. The room is imagined; the canvas is the real work. It is not a measurement: the size is in the details above.
