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A wonderful painting of an "Oriental Woman”, in the guise of Cleopatra wearing the goddess Neckhbet (Vulture) head-dress with a suggestion of a cobra at the brow. Fine gold earrings and a beautiful necklace adorn her, with the sensuous somewhat fragile beauty of the imagined Cleopatra.
Pollack was an Austrian artist; many of his paintings are of still lives, sensuous women or whimsical studies of children with cats, he is known for his oriental subjects. His paintings have about them a Fusilian mystery, a slight unease. In the case of this painting, the figure looks off into the distance, lit from behind with a yellow gold reflection, she looks otherworldly, is she thinking of the asp in her future or how people will think of her in millennia?
The painting is most likely a study for a larger work. Size 21 X 15.5 cm, with original frame 41 X 36 cm. The frame has some light damage which has been repaired. Painted on a wooden board. Signed A Pollak in gauche, no date.
A wonderful painting of an "Oriental Woman”, in the guise of Cleopatra wearing the goddess Neckhbet (Vulture) head-dress with a suggestion of a cobra at the brow. Fine gold earrings and a beautiful necklace adorn her, with the sensuous somewhat fragile beauty of the imagined Cleopatra.
Pollack was an Austrian artist; many of his paintings are of still lives, sensuous women or whimsical studies of children with cats, he is known for his oriental subjects. His paintings have about them a Fusilian mystery, a slight unease. In the case of this painting, the figure looks off into the distance, lit from behind with a yellow gold reflection, she looks otherworldly, is she thinking of the asp in her future or how people will think of her in millennia?
The painting is most likely a study for a larger work. Size 21 X 15.5 cm, with original frame 41 X 36 cm. The frame has some light damage which has been repaired. Painted on a wooden board. Signed A Pollak in gauche, no date.