Suthamma (Ta) Byrne

Stretching

2023

I once said it would be easier for me to walk on the moon than become an artist.I left school at 12 to work in the rice fields; at 13, I worked in a sweatshop in Bangkok making shirt...

Letting Go, Almost In this work, the figure appears in a state between holding and release. The body is no longer tightly controlled, yet it has not fully let go. This in-between st...

In this work, the body appears folded inward, as if responding to a space that cannot fully hold it. The figure compresses herself — knees drawn in, head resting heavily on the arm —...

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud. "Nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are ...

Kristine Moran, oil on wood panel, signed and dated verso

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Impresionist woman nude figure

Helen Khal grew up in a Lebanese family in Pennsylvania. In 1946, she went to live in Lebanon for two years, studying painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut, and meeting the artists Shafic Abboud...