Original painting · Oil and acrylic on aluminium panel
Comtesse
Oil and acrylic on aluminium panel, 122 x 98 cm
Ingres’s comtesse, fractured into grey, blue and ochre, a thread of turquoise stitching the pieces back. What was lost returns, changed.
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This painting has found its home. Marcus takes on a small number of portrait commissions each year.
About this work
This captivating piece fuses the classic charm of Ingres’s "Louise de Broglie" with sleek geometric shapes, creating a striking blend of tradition and innovation.
Original oil painting. Oil and acrylic on aluminium panel, 122 x 98 cm.
Marcus Callum
Marcus Callum is an internationally recognised painter of realist portraits and expressive abstracts. Winner of the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize and the Black Swan Portrait Prize and a three-time Archibald Prize finalist, he trained at the New York Academy of Art and now works from his studio in the UK.
“My paintings take on an energy of their own,” he says. Each one is made to lift the room it hangs in.
