Dona Babe, 2001, 70 x 50 cm, Acrylic on canvas. The painting Shows a highly stylized portrait of a woman in what was already antonino's signature style: brightly-coloured, blue-green background, a striking, penetrating gaze and, in her particular instance, wearing a blue-buttoned short-sleeved crop-top with red collar and green and yellow button holes and a tiny 6-pronged golden crown on her head.

#Antonino painting, week 2.
#DonaBabe, a beautician by profession, was a client of Antonino’s when he was still a printer and, I believe, one of - if not the - first person to actually buy one of his paintings. Since then, a number of people bought paintings from him but, for some reason, they
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