Sam McKinniss renders an intimate and luminous portrait of Prince, capturing the musician's iconic beauty against a soft, dreamlike backdrop reminiscent of the romantic black-and-white aesthetic of his 1986 film *Under the Cherry Moon*. McKinniss employs his signature approach of translating photographic source material into richly painted surfaces, blending oil and acrylic to achieve both delicate skin tones and a sense of otherworldly, almost cinematic glow. The work pays tender homage to Prince's enigmatic persona, merging celebrity mythology with a painterly sensitivity that elevates the image into something quietly reverent.