Original artwork description:

'Lament', oil and mixed media on Arches paper.
On the back of the painting there is a handwritten poem, one of the poems I've read on the day it was painted. The poem is by Rainer Maria Rilke, titled: 'Lament'.

Certificate of Authenticity

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Lament
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Everything is far
and long gone by.
I think that the star
glittering above me
has been dead for a million years.
I think there were tears
in the car I heard pass
and something terrible was said.
A clock has stopped striking in the house
across the road…
When did it start?…
I would like to step out of my heart
an go walking beneath the enormous sky.
I would like to pray.
And surely of all the stars that perished
long ago,
one still exists.
I think that I know
which one it is—
which one, at the end of its beam in the sky,
stands like a white city…

Materials used:

oil paints

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