🔸 Technique : Oil on canvas 🔸 Dimensions : 65 x 54 cm 🔸 Price : €1,000 🔸 Unique original work – Certificate of authenticity provided
Between gaze and creation, a suspended moment.
In The Blue Hat , Maguy Bourzeix captures the quiet beauty of an intimate moment, that of contemplation before the creative act. The young woman, posed in front of her easel, wears a large hat of a deep—almost royal—blue that casts a subtle shadow over her attentive gaze.
Around her, brushes, tubes of paint, carefully arranged yellow fruit: the painter's still life itself, integrated into the scene. The painting then becomes a mise en abyme—portrait of the artist, or studio muse? The ambiguity is deliberate, poetic.
The intense blue, the common thread of the work, is found in the palette, the clothes and even the touches that stray into drips. Maguy Bourzeix composes a sober, sensitive work, imbued with a hushed charm, where art and woman observe and merge into one another.
