Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
signed and dated at the bottom of the composition: 'ro | ix | 2023'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: '"GRANVILLE" | ro | ix | 2023'.
Biography
When I read Krystyna Skarbek's biography, I immediately thought herstory was a great motif for a painting. The fact that she was a secret agent and changed identities depending on the needs of a given mission fascinated me completely. In the painting "Granville" (the title is her intelligence alias, Italian: Christine Granville), I painted Christine as a figure composed of segments, which symbolizes her multifaceted life. Magical plants appear here, giving extraordinary powers, and a huge number of eyes. Are these the eyes of my heroine, who probably had to have "eyes around her head" all the time, or perhaps the eyes of those who followed her....
