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62 x 82 cm / 24 x 32"
Gracefully they'd break off. She to bite her mask's black velvet, he to take his cane, while you sat and played toccatas stately at the clavicord. And for Venice and her people mirth and folly were the crop. What of soul was left l wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
51 x 76 cm / 20 x 30"
On stage in tender light. Her nameless grace, her glowing face, her early doubts she'll now erase as with long step she makes her powerful strut across the catwalk
72 x 96 cm / 28 x 38"
Was the clue to her quest the heart on her mask? By sundown came the Red Queen with her brace of sleek cheetahs searching the night air for her quarry. Robed in red, bedecked in pearls, imperious about her great cats she looks west, and golden eyes glint against the last rays of the day as the cheetahs pause in the hunt of their elusive prey.
52 x 77 cm / 20 x 30"
Did young people take their pleasure when the sea was warm in May? Balls and masques begun at midnight, burning ever to mid-day, When they made up fresh adventures for the morrow, do you say?
56 x 76 cm / 22 x 30"
At night among the starry hours she searches the earth beneath the moon. Kings from the East and Kings from the West have laid tribute to the Queen in their fiery quest, but no man has yet found the frozen amulet that seals her heart within her breast.
41 x 31 cm / 16 x 12"
A memory of the dance. He remembered her in her black dress holding the mask away from her face, the pink flower he'd given her that evening in her upswept hair and turning away from him, returning now in memory.
56 x 71 cm / 22 x 28"
The evening rain carried the smell of her cigarette, and her scent of vintage gardenia. Fragments of a half - remembered song filtered into the street. Something about the song and the Hotel de Paris reminded him of another girl, and of another time in another city.
52 x 77 cm / 20 x 30"
Symphony in blue and gold, glides across the catwalk. The slender beauty in palest blue passing from a golden dream, a gilded memory, ungraspable and ethereal, here for a moment then gone.
52 x 41 cm / 20 x 16"
He played a sad sweet song. Head bowed over melancholic chords as he remembered how he held her. He wondered if she still thought of him as he thought of her.
52 x77 cm / 20 x 30"
The full moon rises against the darkening grey gold sky. Here's Artemis, between her long, fine arrows and lean quiver, ice - white and cloud - grey wolfhounds join their mistress to step into the hunt.