Smile in Colour II

The pose is recognizable, the surface is anything but. A seated figure holds the middle of this vertical canvas with the calm half-smile of a famous Renaissance portrait, her face and folded hands kept in warm gold and amber.

Visual cues include face, portrait, and woman. The palette is anchored by blue, brown, and green. The composition is vertical.

Best suited for a game room, hallway, and home office. Works well in bar and boutique hotel.

Pairs naturally with pop art and portrait interiors. A vertical hang reads well above a sideboard or a narrow console.

Color-wise, the piece works with blue, brown, green, pink, and red. The palette balances warm and cool registers, holding tension without falling on one side.

Painted by hand in oil on stretched canvas by a single painter. Edges are softened where the eye should rest and sharpened where it should stop, with tonal value carried through measured passes.

The pop art character runs through the underpainting, while the portrait feel emerges in the surface passes. For Smile in Colour II, drying and varnishing follow the traditional oil-painting cycle so the finished surface holds without yellowing. The vertical stretch keys the canvas tighter at the long edges, which is what holds a tall format true on the wall.

A vertical canvas reads well above a narrow console, a slim sideboard, or beside a doorway — anywhere the eye needs a column of focus. Hang the centre about 145-155 cm above the floor, with at least 30 cm of clear wall on either side. In a game room, Smile in Colour II reads best on the wall you look at first when entering.

Available sizes: custom, huge. Pick the size to the wall, not the wall to the size. Step back to roughly twice the canvas height to take Smile in Colour II in — that is the distance the painter worked at.