Portrait of Romana

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Briefly about the painting:

This is the artist’s lover Romana Damski, a talented pianist. The artist depicted the woman quite unusually – brutally cutting off her hands and in a strange way forcing them to play music without the participation of the pianist herself. The beautiful woman in a red dress looks like the famous Venus de Milo; despite the metamorphosis that happened to her, she calmly poses, as if not noticing the absence of her own hands. In the opened notebook on the piano, instead of notes, there is a picture of a tree, connected by a strong thread with another similar tree outside the window. Despite the vagueness of the plot, the work has its own structure and tells about the relationship between the artist, the pianist and art.