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A vivid impressionist sunset over a bay with a mountain headland and a small figure of Christ the Redeemer, water blazing gold
Heritage & Identity

Guanabara Gold

2023

Medium
Acrylic on paper
Dimensions
30 × 48 cm
Availability
Available
Price
GHS 850

A bay at sunset, the water turned to hammered gold, a distant headland crowned by an outstretched figure. Painting as pure, unembarrassed colour.

The story behind the work

Painted from a longing to travel I could not yet afford — a sunset over a far-away bay, the water broken into a thousand strokes of gold and green and violet. I let myself be unfashionable here, openly in love with beauty, laying colour next to colour with no irony at all. Sometimes the most radical thing a contemporary painter can do is simply admit that a sunset is beautiful and try to deserve it.

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