Paintings · series · 1 work

Pierrots

A reclining Pierrot in a loose white costume with a large ruffled teal collar and black pom-poms, one hand holding a small mask, painted against a soft teal-grey ground
Reclining Pierrot

The clown who never speaks. Reclining Pierrot rests, waits and watches in loose white costume and ruffled collar against a teal and grey ground that holds the room's own quiet.

The Pierrot is a subject Anahita returns to. He never performs; he pauses. Her palette is an unhurried teal with grey and paper white, the colour of a stage between acts, and her drawing under the paint is confident and simple. The canvas is signed in her round hand at the lower right.

The series belongs to her figurative work: naturalism with a touch of romanticism, the human made specific rather than typical. Reclining Pierrot, at sixty by one hundred and fifty centimetres in acrylic on canvas, is the Pierrot in the catalogue today; others will join it here as they are photographed.

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