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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Irene Scheinmann, Green Lips, 2005

Irene Scheinmann Iraqi, British, b. 1933, Baghdad, Iraq;-d. 2023, London, UK

Green Lips, 2005
Oil Painting
121 x 86 cm
47 5/8 x 33 7/8 in

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Among the most concentrated works in Irene Scheinmann's late output, Green Lips is built on a single, precisely calibrated relationship. A pair of lips sit at the horizon between two tonal fields, a warm sandy upper ground meeting a cooler green-grey below. The surface is constructed in dense granular impasto, pigment worked to a texture that reads simultaneously as skin, stone and compacted earth, the lips embedded in the ground. The figure is continuous with the landscape, body and terrain meeting along a shared horizon without hierarchy or explanation. Irene Scheinmann spent decades developing this compression, the seen and the imagined held in the same surface, the human reduced to its most essential presence within the elemental.
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