
Yellow Skulls
2009
A haunting arrangement of yellow skulls emerges from a richly textured surface, their forms simultaneously vivid and dissolving into an almost dreamlike blur. Cognée's signature encaustic-influenced technique — achieved by applying heat to oil paint — gives the skulls a luminous, wax-like quality that softens the boundaries between life and death. The intense yellow palette transforms a traditionally macabre subject into something strangely radiant and unsettling.
- Medium
- oil on canvas laid on panel
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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December 6, 2018
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