Technique: Original line drawing / Graphic ink drawing on paper
Year: ca. 1980 - 2000
Size: 19 x 10 cm (image) | 28.5 x 20 cm (including frame)
Signature: Hand-signed in ink lower right 'Resi'
Condition: In very good condition, housed in a traditional gold-trimmed frame with matching passe-partout.
This highly elegant, minimalist line drawing is by the Antwerp-born artist Resi, who moved to Rome following her marriage. The piece depicts a poetic, stylized female nude beneath a tree reaching for a fruit. The composition holds a profound, layered symbolism, subtly channeling the timeless image of Eve in the Garden of Eden and the archetypal narrative of the 'forbidden fruit'. Resi beautifully balances the primal innocence of nature with the eternal allure of temptation and knowledge. The fluid draftsmanship and elongated limbs imbue this work with a timeless European elegance.
