Samba Rouge III by Anna Razumovskaya

This piece is all about the showmanship of the dancer and Razumovskaya, so brilliantly, makes the costume the main feature of the picture.

Glamorous and bold in its colour, the figure seems to be bashful and shy from facing the viewer, so a sense of nerves before the dance, is the feeling elicited from the canvas.

The colours are fantastic in their approach and the backdrop, filled with brush stroke marks of rich colour, almost gives this image a dream like quality or perhaps a sense of movement.