Monica Fagan (b. 1946), Le Choix d'un Monde Nouveau

Oil / canvas pasted on wood, 100 x 84 cm, framed: 117 x 101 cm

Attached is a Certificate of the Artist and Yasnikovsky Art Gallery.
For the winner of the auction, additionally an Art Calendar for 2025 (A2 format) with Jaroslaw Jaśnikowski's paintings "Spaces of Surrealism" and a special edition of the 57-page French Magazine "Art Mag" dedicated to the 2023 exhibition "In the World of Magical Realism" at the Copper Museum in Legnica, in Polish language version.

About the painting:
Oil painting presented at 2 exhibitions in Poland:
- Legnica Copper Museum
- Municipal House of Culture in Luban

The painting will be available in Poland only until February 15, 2025, so this is the last opportunity to purchase it.

Subjective description of the painting:
Choose which world you want to go to. Your familiar world is on fire, omnipresent ruins, smoke, flames. But there is a new world. They say it's better... It looks wonderful, but maybe it's just an incentive, maybe they're about to oppress us, destroy us! Where to go!

About the Artist:
Monica Fagan, of Anglo-Irish descent, was born in Sheffield (UK) and came to France at the age of 18 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. She has shown her work in many exhibitions and art galleries in France and the rest of Europe on fantasy painting and Magic Realism. President of "Barbizon: Painters of Today" from 1987 to 1991, she has had a permanent exhibition of her works at the Museum of Imaginary Art in Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne since 1994. In addition, she creates costumes and opera sets.

Monica Fagan's oil paintings are steeped in fantastic and phenomenal surrealism. The artist deeply resonates with the Pre-Raphaelite and Surrealist Symbolist painters because of their rich imagination. She draws from the past the excellence of solid painting technique, which she reflects in her works, which are both contemporary and timeless. Women, their role in the world, in history, art and opera occupy a very important place in her work. A world of contrasts and contradictions, virginity and fertility, symbolism and sensuality. To enter this world, we must leave our masks above water and take the keys it offers - invitations to penetrate and seek what it jealously hides. But we are not alone. The painting is inhabited. Shapes and objects become human. Musical instruments, rocks, stones and trees become female figures. She describes the passage of matter through water and checkerboard, a symbol of light and darkness... duality and ambiguity... through shadow to eternal light. The passage of time is also one of her interests: she creates fantastic flora and fauna that claim their place in the Cycle of Life. Everything indicates that Man never holds the key to either power or the future. Man only passes, time is eternal... like the ivy that often invades her paintings, a symbol of the Cycle of Life.