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Esmeralda # 1

By Susan Banks 2008

Susan Banks

Dimensions
60cm x 60cm x 4cm

This painting evokes an iconic image, fine fabrics, precious metals and a visual language of embellishment and decoration but it questions certainty and dabbles in the irrational. It makes particular but ambivalent reference to the legendary emeralds of La Macarena.

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