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Our
restorations and interpretive paintings are available for purchase by
calling (919) 401-2586.
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Price (Unmounted)
16x20
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$189
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22x30
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$339
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28x43
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$429
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Framed
Call for estimates on framing. See frame examples here.
Price (Mounted)
16x20
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$224
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22x30
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$399
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28x43
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$499
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Limited editions of
50. Signed by artist. Giclee produced with archival inks on 250
lb watercolor paper.
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Watercolor
Interpretation of Leonardo's
Pointing Lady Drawing
(Ca 1515) Brown-hue black chalk, 210x135mm
(8.27x5.31in.)
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| Leonardo's original drawing is titled,
"Woman Standing in a Landscape" (often called The Pointing Lady) (Ca
1515) with brown-hue black chalk and was a tiny 210x135mm (8.27x5.32
inches). Dr. Elliott's watercolor interpretation is available in a
variety of sized up to 45 inches tall. |
Through
the giving of colours to and my own interpretation of
Leonardo’s
drawings, it is my wish to make the Master’s voice audible
for
you; and to express my own creativity through His – producing a
work of
art that appeals to contemporary tastes – taking on a
‘new life’
within the setting of contemporary 21st Century homes.
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Wistfully
sketched as the sun set on the last years of Leonardo’s life, he
presumably was inspired by Dante’s character of Matelda,
who
points his way toward the heavenly Paradise once known as
‘Eden.’
Vortices throughout, make Matelda the perfect pendant for
Leonardo’s Deluge Series drawings, done during the same
period. As Dante in the 14th century writes,
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“And there appeared to me – as when the intrusion
Of some new wonder takes one unaware
And throws all one’s ideas into confusion -
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A lady all alone, who wandered there
Singing and plucking flower on floweret gay,
With which her path was painted everywhere.”
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Perhaps her enigma is bequeathed to us through Leonardo’s
blending of
the human with the Divine; amidst the tumult of natural forms blended
with a subtle and curious gracefulness. Emblematic of the
‘Leonardo effect’ Walter Pater’s 1869 phrase
seems to fit
precisely the Pointing Lady
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“…That
remote beauty which may be apprehended only by those who
have sought it
carefully”… “giving immortality to the subtlest and
most delicate
effects of painting.”
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a landscape of places far withdrawn she bequeaths to us all the
swarming fancies of his preference for the remote and
curious…whose
smile would have us understand something far beyond the outward gesture
or circumstance.” – Walter Pater
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