{"product_id":"head-of-a-woman-with-pearls-cabeca-de-mulher-com-perolas","title":"Head of a Woman with Pearls (Cabeça de Mulher com Pérolas)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eBy the mid-1990s, ESPIGA Pinto’s work had entered a period of particular public visibility and mature reflection. The decade brought major solo exhibitions, including his 50th solo exhibition, at the National Library, in 1994. \u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis silkscreen belongs to the wider atmosphere of ESPIGA’s work from the 1980s onwards, when his practice became increasingly introspective, symbolic and meditative. Earlier Alentejo motifs such as the horse, the wheel, the sun, the feminine figure and the artist’s long fascination with geometry became closely connected themes. They emerged as part of a more reflective system of signs: a personal visual language through which memory, origin, cosmology and cultural inheritance could be brought into relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this context, \u003cem\u003eHead of a Woman with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e can be read as a concentrated expression of that later sensibility. The female head, a recurring presence in ESPIGA’s imagination, is not presented as portraiture in the conventional sense. Instead, it appears as an emblem: inward-looking, frontal, almost icon-like, held within arcs, bands and rhythmic points that suggest both ornament and structure. The pearls, set along the sweeping upper form, become part of the work’s geometry, mediating between adornment, sign and structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image carries the intimacy of a study while retaining the symbolic charge of ESPIGA’s larger 'Maps of Memory' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in 1994, the year of his 50th solo exhibition, this artist’s proof offers a quietly powerful point of entry into ESPIGA Pinto’s mature period: a moment when public acclaim and inward enquiry were not opposed, but deeply connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eArtist: ESPIGA Pinto\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTitle: \u003cem\u003eHead of a Woman with Pearls (Cabeça de Mulher com Pérolas)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: 1994\u003cbr\u003eMedium: Silkscreen on paper\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 28.5 x 21.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEdition: Artist’s proof III\/XXV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSigned, numbered and dated by the artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFRAME NOT INCLUDED.\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-54304aff-7fff-6455-aa10-780d279b9845\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis artwork is sold unframed. Bespoke framing options and framing advice are available. Please contact us. Any frame, mount or room setting shown in images is for illustrative purposes only. Please check the stated artwork dimensions before ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESPIGA Pinto - Official Artist Estate Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53668720410971,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/1297\/6475\/files\/WOMAN-WITH-PEARLS.jpg?v=1785517969","url":"https:\/\/shop.espigapinto.com\/products\/head-of-a-woman-with-pearls-cabeca-de-mulher-com-perolas","provider":"The ESPIGA Estate Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}