Fatima Ronquillo Philippines / USA, 1976
The Nightingale and the Rose, 2023
Oil on aluminum panel
23 x 30.5 cm
Framed: 35.6 x 43 x 5 cm
Framed: 35.6 x 43 x 5 cm
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“The Nightingale and The Rose”, a pair of hands cradle a red rose and its lover, the nightingale. The inspiration is from a Persian poem by Hafez: the nightingale loved...
“The Nightingale and The Rose”, a pair of hands cradle a red rose and its lover, the nightingale. The inspiration is from a Persian poem by Hafez: the nightingale loved the rose and feeds it with drops of his blood from a wound he sustains from the rose’s thorns. “Alas, he loved a rose, like me, And he too, loved in agony”.
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