The Silent Listeners Black & White de Chirico and Picabia

de Chirico and Picabia

An artist whose career mirrors so many of her generation

Spine of Charles Dickens: Collected Essays (1902)

Of course that could be a previous owner or descendent as much as the name of the sitter

And I adore his little pocket

The Silent Listeners Black & White de Chirico and PicabiaThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass