Place of creation: Tamarit, Catalonia, Spain
Date: 2013
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm (unframed)
Painted en plein air
«She evoked a young medieval princess rising breast-high from the sea, her crowned stone profile gleaming in the sunlight. A silent sphinx-maiden, forever turned towards the north-east. The movement of the waves transformed the sea foam at her breast into billowing velvet lace.»
Zh. Troepolskaya