My Life's Sonata

Oil on canvas, 109 × 173 cm (43 × 68 in)

A red-haired woman lies back with closed eyes, her body flowing seamlessly into the scarlet curves of a cello she seems to have become. Against washes of slate blue, figure and instrument are a single ecstatic form lit by a small golden glow — the artist's clearest statement that a body does not play music so much as turn into it.

Materials

Oil

Themes

MusicFigureMemory

Palette