Waiting for Dinner

Waiting for Dinner is an original acrylic and mixed media painting on a repurposed 22" x 18" canvas — a portrait of a woman at a restaurant table who has already won the evening before it has begun. She sits in a striped banquette, her posture relaxed and elegant, one hand raised lightly to her collarbone in a gesture of casual self-possession. She wears a dramatic off-shoulder black dress with voluminous puffed sleeves — the kind of dress that makes a room pay attention. Dark sunglasses. A delicate gold necklace. Pearl drop earrings — a single round pearl at each ear, simple and exact. Her dark hair is swept up loosely, a few soft tendrils at her jaw. Her lips are a deep, decisive red. On the table before her sits a pale blue coffee cup on its saucer — the only colour in an otherwise black, white, and skin-toned composition, cool and quiet and entirely at home. The background is a clean white wall, the banquette a bold ticking stripe of black and white. Pure paint, pure poise, pure dinner. A one-of-a-kind original by Branka, created once and never again.

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