Japanese Love Tales – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - July 2025
🔹 Technique : Digital work
🔹 Print / Price:
• Hahnemühle paper (2 cm white border)
◦ 50 x 50 cm: €350 (Limited edition of 30 copies)
• Aludibond (without border)
◦ 60 x 60 cm: €450 (Limited edition of 10 copies)
◦ 80 x 80 cm: €650 (Limited edition of 5 copies)
🔹 Numbered and signed by hand
• On the front for prints on Hahnemühle paper
• On the back for works on Aludibond
🔹 Certificate of authenticity provided
In a soft monochrome chiaroscuro, a young woman in a polka-dotted kimono exchanges a tender and mysterious gaze with a black cat. The delicately placed flower in her hair and the elegance of her pose evoke Japanese prints, while the cat's realism adds a touch of poetic surrealism.
Japanese Love Tales is a tribute to the timeless beauty of Japanese traditions and the silent power of the human-animal bond. The artist explores intimacy, mystery, and harmony in a minimalist yet emotionally charged composition.
This work, at the crossroads of old portraiture and contemporary illustration, captures a suspended moment, a story of love and complicity that can be guessed at rather than told.
