Elen Bezhen
Portrait with an Apple, 2025
Oil on Canvas
65 x 81 cm
25.6 x 31.9 inches
25.6 x 31.9 inches
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In Portrait with an Apple, Elen Bezhen depicts a young figure holding an apple with a calm, almost solemn presence. The fruit carries clear symbolic weight, alluding to knowledge, temptation,...
In Portrait with an Apple, Elen Bezhen depicts a young figure holding an apple with a calm, almost solemn presence. The fruit carries clear symbolic weight, alluding to knowledge, temptation, and inherited stories, while also anchoring the work in the long tradition of symbolic portraiture. Set against a dense backdrop of foliage and fruit, the figure appears both part of and slightly removed from their surroundings, as if suspended in thought.
