Soft warm pinks and mauves with a lush organic background of rounded floral forms. The figure feels luminous against a rich decorative ground.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, painted in soft pinks and mauves with lush rounded floral forms
Bold yellow dominates with dramatic dark gestural marks cutting through figure and background alike. High impact and immediate. The colour owns the image.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in bold yellow with slashing dark gestural marks, raw and immediate
Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in warm earth tones with painterly classical technique
Cool grey with swirling marks and ghostly repeated faces emerging from the background. Unsettling and distinctive. The figure stands in a crowd of shadows.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces
Cool grey with large sculptural rock forms in the background. Painterly and soft. The figure sits comfortably in front of the surface.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in soft painterly greys with sculptural stone textures
Warm painterly impasto with tall organic forms flanking the figure in muted golds blues and pinks. Loose and gestural. The figure stands in a gallery of painted shapes.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in warm impasto strokes of muted gold, blue, and pink
Warm sandy beige with large fractured stone planes filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in the same warm palette. Structural and grounded without coldness.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, painted in warm beige tones with fractured stone planes and naturalistic earthy figures
Warm flesh and pale blue with tiled repeated copies of the figure filling the background in an ordered grid. The central figure stands before a wall of its own reflections. Distinctive and slightly disorienting with a pop multiplicity.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in warm flesh tones and pale blue with a pop-art grid of repeated figures
Cool silver and blue with dramatic angular mountain-like forms filling the background — jagged peaks or shattered rock faces in dark gestural marks. Figure is warm and painterly against the powerful cool surround. Alpine and commanding. One of the more dramatically structured backgrounds in this range.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in bold angular marks with icy silver-blue peaks and warm painterly figure
Deep indigo and navy forms fill the background in large bold brushstrokes with warm brown-ochre accents. Figure stands in pale blue-grey tones against the turbulent dark surround. Rich impasto character with genuine menace — the dark masses press in from all sides.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, painted in deep indigo and navy impasto with warm ochre accents and pale blue-grey figure
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in luminous whites with dark tendril marks and warm flesh tones
Entire surface broken into dense confident brushstrokes in cool blue-grey and white — figure and ground unified in the same energetic mark-making. The figure is present but woven into the surface rather than sitting on it. Cool silvery and kinetic.
Semin-nude fastening her swimsuit, rendered in bold, unified brushwork of cool blue-grey and white