On GoldKindly
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil and gold leaf on canvas
- Size
- 120 × 80 cm, 2 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Kindly Myers
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€1.300
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
Turned inward
Almost every photograph I save for painting is aimed outward. Made to be seen, and good at it.
This one is turned in on itself, and I am still not entirely sure I was meant to be looking. Whatever is happening is happening on the inside and it is not mild. That is what kept me at it for weeks.
The gold she is set against is real gold leaf, not paint. There is no gold in oil paint.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Kindly Myers. 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 Kindly (On Gold) 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.