"Light in Darkness"
74x60 cm - Sarah Manoukian
The painting is an abstract work painted by Sarah Manoukian. One notices a surprising play of colour and texture on which the eyes can only stop. We can observe red, blue, and green opaline paint threads poured over the painting's foreground and light colour jets, giving a splash effect and contrasting with the dark background. The latter resembles a fuzzy background where gradations of colours are mixed from dark at the edges to light towards the centre like a watercolour. This gives the painting depth, like a long tunnel. This effect is cut through by the thick layers of paint that seem to come out of the work. Layers of paint appear superimposed and worked on, giving the impression of movement or at least three dimensions.
PAINTING VALUE: 1250 US$
"La rue Tamatare."
Aquarelle 64x46 cm - Jocelyn Thomasse
This work represents an alleyway in Port Louis painted by Jocelyn Thomasse. The foreground is a house with pieces of tin or wood in shades that blend harmoniously together as if on a giant patchwork. A lamp post faces it. The back of the alley is outlined in perspective. Small houses and modest shops appear in the background. As one goes deeper into the picture, the elements that make it up are less and less represented. The artist has been able to give his work a realistic dimension with the details of the windows, materials, or the first house portal while keeping the artistic and blurred side of the watercolour. One can clearly discern large trees surrounding the street, but the details are not perceptible. Here, the vegetation is represented by an ingenious superimposition of green shades on which the leaves are drawn in black lines. The different techniques that the artist has mixed give the painting a beautiful atmosphere whose light touches of black, barely worked on, contrast with the lightness of the fading of the colour in watercolour.
PAINTING VALUE: 1250 US$