This emotionally charged contemporary painting depicts a close-up profile of a crying young child against a dark, heavily textured background. The composition focuses intimately on the subject's face, utilizing dramatic chiaroscuro lighting to illuminate the delicate contours of the brow, nose, and parted pink lips. A single, highly detailed translucent tear is shown caught in mid-descent from the eye, providing a sharp focal point of vulnerability and grief. The work is signed and dated "L. Rocha '14" in light script near the bottom right corner. The painting is housed within an ornate, deeply carved dark wooden frame with continuous stylized foliate motifs and a classic dark velvet-lined inner liner.

Specifications

• Artist: L. Rocha (21st Century)

• Title: Tearful Profile

• Date: 2014

• Medium: Oil or acrylic on canvas

• Signature: Signed and dated "L. Rocha '14" lower right

• Specs (Dimensions): 30 x 23.5 inches (Frame size)

Contemporary art emotional portraiture crying child single tear close up profile face sadness grief sorrow figurative realism monochromatic background dramatic lighting chiaroscuro realism textured canvas signed dated 2014 original painting fine art dark wood frame carved foliage frame velvet liner decorative art estate auction catalog ready inventory.