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Man with hand in darkness

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This is another small detail from José Benlliure y Gil’s huge oil painting Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir, showing just the head and hand of the conductor. It’s not actually so dark in the original oil painting, but the engraver (credited to Max Narua von Weber) for the Moderne Kunst magazine reproduction back in 1898 made it pretty dark.

It looks almost as if the conductor is on the other side of a sheet of glass, a window or door perhaps, pressing one hand against the surface so we see the white of his finger-pads.

people, faces, hands, darkness

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