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Andrée Bars
"The Threads of Life", Symbolist Reverie Tapestry of Being Original Oil Painting

$4,369.47
£3,295.38
€3,750
CA$6,041.17
A$6,767.13
CHF 3,554.34
MX$82,286.14
NOK 45,009.57
SEK 42,726.19
DKK 28,547.45

About the Item

“The Threads of Life” is an original oil painting on linen by Andrée Bars. With poetic sensitivity, this artwork offers a powerful visual metaphor for human existence. Seated at the center of a chessboard — a symbol of destiny’s strategies — a young lace-maker patiently traces the threads of her life. Her precise movements and introspective gaze tell a silent story: that of every human being weaving their own path, thread by thread, encounter by encounter. The lace she creates is more than a decorative motif — it becomes an intimate cartography, woven from coincidences, choices, chance, and invisible bonds. Around her, the bobbins float, as if suspended in a breath of time, suggesting that some decisions may lie beyond our control — or perhaps, that they simply await our hand to be guided. Her bodice, made of real lace, embodies the complex texture of lived experience: fragile, subtle, yet of immense strength. In the background, a forest path emerges in a soft, diffuse light — the journey of life itself, with its shadows and clearings, its detours and promises. The Threads of Life is a gentle yet profound allegory of our relationship with fate, memory, and the quiet art of weaving meaning. Every detail of this painting whispers that nothing is insignificant — that each thread, however delicate, contributes to the grand embroidery of existence. Andrée Bars is a French painter. Having been strictly trained for 4 years by the American hyper-realist painter Mr. Ted Seth Jacobs, who himself inherited 19th century masters’ skills from his own professor, Andrée Bars learned the profession of painting in its purest tradition. She still applies these ancient masters’ technics on her art. Each painting contains at least three layers of oil paint. Andrée Bars applies her skills to hyper-realism on surrealist ideas. Although her paintings copy the reality to the extreme, they can not be qualified in a simple term of hyperrealism nor of trompe-l’oeil style, her artworks distinguish themselves for a kind of mysterious sweetness they convey to the spectator.
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    Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Clermont-Ferrand, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1041116030732

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