Secret love dreams

Visual Description

A woman’s face with closed eyes and red lips, her hair adorned with a red flower. Below the face, the forms dissolve into vertical bands of color and drips in blue, red, ocher and turquoise. At the lower right, the title “Secret love dreams” appears in fine lettering, surrounded by stars and honeycomb patterns.

Artistic Interpretation

The picture shows a moment turned entirely inward: the woman is dreaming, and the dream flows out of the portrait into the color. The face remains clear; everything else becomes feeling. The result is a picture about longing, tenderness and the secrets we keep to ourselves.

Art-Historical Context

The combination of a finely painted face and gestural, dripping paint connects to the tradition of lyrical Expressionism and to contemporary mixed-media portraits.

Exclusivity

A one-of-a-kind work of delicate intensity. The contrast between the calm clarity of the face and the free dissolution of color makes this one of the most poetic works in Graf’s portraiture.

Collector Value

A calm, emotional work for bedrooms and living spaces, spa and wellness areas, and practices. The 60 × 80 cm vertical format creates a concentrated, intimate effect.

More About the Artist

Christine Graf is a contemporary painter who combines classical techniques with modern expressiveness; her portraits, abstract and surreal works draw their strength from intense color and an unmistakable coloristic signature.

Internationally present since the 1990s and represented in collections, she is one of the distinctive voices in contemporary painting.

Condition Report

Original from the artist’s studio, signed lower right. A detailed condition report with close-up photos is available on request before purchase.