The Dark Annunciation
Open edition
Original size: 44 cm x 39 cm
Price: £120
I felt like creating something akin to religious painting of Old Masters. "She went back to reading the mystics: Luis de Leon, Juan de la Cruz - the same ones read to her long ago in the sun-drenched Neapolitan afternoons by a young cavalier dressed all in black. The book lay open under the casement; Anna, sitting in the pale afternoon sunlight, would let her eyes fall upon a line from time to time. She did not seek to follow the sense, but those great ardent phrases formed part of the amorous, dolorous music which accompanied her life. Images from former times shone anew in their immutable youth, as if Donna Anna, in her imperceptible descent, had begun to reach the place where all things come together. ". Marguerite Yourcenar "Anna, Soror..."
