Colour tattoo of an Art Nouveau style woman with red hair and white roses in a circular frame, placed on the upper arm and shoulder.

Art Nouveau woman with white roses on upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A woman with flowing red hair, wearing white roses in her hair and a yellow drape over one shoulder, is framed within a circular border of red swirling lines. The outlines are bold and the shading is smooth, with soft pink tones on the skin and layered whites on the flowers. A teal background sits behind the figure and flowers, and the design fills the upper arm.

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Dear Hélène, the stone has cracked again, and Monsieur Varin says the new tints from Lyon are no better than chalk, so I have spent three nights grinding ochre by lamplight. You will laugh, but the commission is a poster for the Théâtre de la Rue Saint-Denis, and the actress they have hired insists her hair must be painted the red of a fox in October. Varin promised her we could manage it. We cannot, not without the Lyon tints.

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The master's drawing is pinned above the press: a woman turned half away from the viewer, a yellow drape slipping from one shoulder, white roses heaped in her hair as though she had walked through a hedge of them. Around her runs a border of red lines that curl like wind through ribbon. Every time I look up from the inking I feel I am late for something.

Yesterday I carried the proofs down to the quai to match the teal wash against the river light. An old flower seller there asked what I was hiding under my coat. When I showed her the sheet she laughed and said she had sold roses to a woman with exactly that hair, years ago, and that the woman had never once paid on time. She gave me three stems for the sake of the picture, and I have put them in a jar beside the stone where the ink can smell them.

This morning the last sheet came off the press with the whites lifted clean and the roses almost luminous. For a moment the figure seemed to glance back over her shoulder at me, as if someone in the street had called her name. I am keeping the first proof for you. Come and see it before the bills go up on the walls.

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