.." Norma Jean"

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By Joanna Constable Green
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£4,500.00

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Dimensions (HxWxD):

100 × 76 × 5 cm

Materials:

Oil paint, silver and rose gold leaf on canvas.

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Painting

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2020
Signed on Front
Ready to display
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A portrait of Marilyn Monroe, in thoughtful repose. Creating a portrait of an icon is always a risk. FIrstly they are almost over familiar, and everyone has an image in their minds eye of what that person looks like. Marilyn to me is both a heroic and a tragic figure mixed together in a complicated human being. I wanted to call the piece by her original name "Norma" and at the same time show more of the unguarded person behind the mask and the 'gloss' of worldwide fame. What is Norma thinking, is she thoughtful or plain sad? Every time the piece is viewed the answer could be different....

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