Samson Toba

A La Mode (Fashionable)

2022

Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)

Some people are short, and others are tall, Yet you are reflections of them all! The great big stars that are in the sky, Have the same twinkle that's in you...

The paintings are painted with acrylic paints on canvas. My heroine is a woman in a red dress. The paintings in this series are fascinating to collectors and found a home in many countries. Pop art paintings are loved by many. I also really like to remember funny comic book characters. They all meet with my heroine Lipochka. Pop art paintings are a great opportunity to invest in painting successfully. Original painting by Natalie Shiporina.

"An impromptu in music demonstrates its particular ability to translate the romantic effusion of a moment or of a mood. As I am looking through the window, the exterior scenery composes with my mood a complicated picture," says Simon-Gestin. "This piece expresses my complicated feelings about life." Impromptu #9 features two female figures conversing against a backdrop of rich blue windows, a vase of red flowers, and complimentary patterns and shapes. "After studying at the Beaux-arts in France, I have been painting, drawing, etching, making collage in the USA and in Italy, Austria, Denmark and China. In all these countries my work has been exhibited and collected. Numerous series have accompanied me during my itinerances. Questions about identity and my relation to the world mark my road. I wish to express the complexity, the beauty, the ambiguity of the world as I feel it. I paint women and children in a universe of fantasy made of strange animals in baroque situations. In all these women, there is something of me but the sum of all these women does not equal me or I would have nothing more to say." -- Josette Simon...