The Dandy

A long-haired woman meets the viewer’s gaze before deep red drapery. Pale fabric gathers around her arms and torso, setting warm copper skin against cool folds of cloth. The square composition balances the figure’s dark hair with the light fabric around her.

Original oil painting on canvas.

“Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism. These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking. Dandyism is a form of Romanticism. Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of mind.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Size: 40 × 40 in

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