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Published: 2006-01-02 13:38:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 6971; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 176
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Description Original oil on stretched 120cm x 60cm canvas, produced in cooperation with Marc Haegeman (Thanks Marc)

Mariinski Theatre's Kirov Ballet, her ethereal figure and outstretched arm, reaches with a sense of sadness, seduced by death, searching for the impending doom as the woman in white in her emotive rendition of Balanchine's gripping La Valse, one of his most innovative and vibrant ballets...

Both the ballerina and the plain black background are painted entirely with a knife. A high level of contrast is provided.

There's many more figurative, dance and portrait fine art original oil paintings, pastels and signed gicleΓ© prints on my website: R Young Art

Re-uploaded and made available as prints following requests.
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Comments: 14

Tigles1Artistry [2013-05-19 16:53:13 +0000 UTC]

This and a few other of your works, have been featured here [link]

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GoldenGirl954 [2012-09-01 01:42:52 +0000 UTC]

Nice job on this! I love the colors
This reminds me of the movie Black Swan in an odd way

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samir-alaoui [2010-05-03 14:08:48 +0000 UTC]

Bravo

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UniquelyYours [2008-06-06 04:51:16 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic! I can really feel how her arm is an extension of her body/emotion-

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elizabeth-rose-l [2008-01-27 13:02:24 +0000 UTC]

i love the slight tilt of her head
and the extension of her delicate fingers
this is amazing!

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JoseHerb [2007-11-24 21:25:43 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful rendering of the shoulder.

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EnnaSilme [2006-11-29 12:55:30 +0000 UTC]

very good!!

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blimthepixie [2006-08-14 17:08:05 +0000 UTC]

beautiful work,

sadly exceptional work like this tends to go unoticed amongst the copious amounts of anime work on deviant, took me ages to find this quality gallery, but so glad i did.

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Celeste0798 [2006-05-21 02:33:29 +0000 UTC]

The detailing is incredible! I am a dancer and this is amazing, inspirational, thank you!

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WickedNox [2006-05-07 00:50:08 +0000 UTC]

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LeFleurDuNoir [2006-04-20 15:13:56 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant detail. *oogles* The hair colour is like wow. The hand looks amazing... ^^ Everything looks so real, I love you style.

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ryoung [2006-03-16 16:14:37 +0000 UTC]

Thx Anna. I don't seem to get many visitors to my gallery for some reason. Not to worry...

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AnnaGilhespy [2006-03-15 09:32:31 +0000 UTC]

How has this only 1 comment and 4 favs???!!!??? it's just not right. this work is outstanding, and inspiring. I have always wanted to paint dancers, you are so lucky to have access to them.

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gobbyblah [2006-01-07 01:24:16 +0000 UTC]

That is wonderful. You are such an inspiration.

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