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Laura No 1 1929
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Vilmos Aba-Novak
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Bold ochres and cool violet shadows collide across the face in Laura No 1, a 1929 portrait by Vilmos Aba-Novak now offered as a hand-painted oil on canvas.
Description
Description
Warm ochre meets a bruised, almost violet shadow along the jaw in Laura No 1, and the two tones do not blend so much as negotiate, staying separate enough that the paint itself seems to hold the tension of a face caught mid-thought. Thick strokes of rust and burnt sienna build the flesh, while cooler greys and blues cut in around the eyes and collar, sharpening the features against the loosely worked background. It is a portrait built from friction between warm and cool rather than from smooth transition, and that friction is the whole subject.
About Laura No 1
Vilmos Aba-Novak painted Laura No 1 in 1929, a period when his figurative work carried the same physical urgency he brought to his crowded market scenes and circus subjects. The sitter, named but otherwise unidentified beyond the title, occupies the canvas with a directness that owes little to academic portrait convention. Aba-Novak was not interested in flattering symmetry; he wanted the paint to register presence, and here the brush moves fast enough that individual strokes remain legible as strokes, ridges of pigment catching light rather than dissolving into polished skin.
That refusal to smooth things over is exactly what a hand-painted oil painting reproduction has to honour. Each canvas is painted by a trained artist working in oil, matching the ochres and violets stroke by stroke and keeping the ridges of pigment intact rather than flattening them into an even surface, since flattening the texture would erase the argument the picture is making. As an oil on canvas reproduction rather than a printed copy, it carries the same weight of paint that gives the original its edge, letting light fall across raised impasto the way it would on the 1929 canvas itself.
The hand-painted reproduction
What is carried across is not just the image but the record of how it was made: the sequence of warm ground beneath cooler overpainting, the places where the brush was loaded heavily and the places where it barely touched the weave. That fidelity to process, more than exact color-matching alone, is what lets this reproduction stand convincingly in a room as a painted object rather than a copy of one.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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