Michèle Turning Away — CARL-NIKOLAS VON TIEDEMANN

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Michèle Turning Away

Year: 2025

Medium: Oil on linen

Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm

Frame: 54.7 x 64.7 cm

Price on request

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The passionate gaze of a saint …

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The Head of The Baptist
(Der Kopf Des Täufers)

2024
Oil on linen
60 x 50 cm

Available

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Happy Feast of Mary‘s Assumption!

"As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary."
— Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

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The Prayer of The Holy Vir

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And so it begins …

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Portrait of A Sardinian
(Bildnis Eines Sarden)

2026
Oil on linen
45 x 50 cm

AVAILABLE 
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My initial oil study of the portrait of the crucified Christ, now framed.

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Head Study of The Crucified Christ
(Kopfstudie Des Gekreuzigten Christus)

2026
Oil on linen
45 x 50 cm

AVAILABLE

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Better late than never — pretty much exactly two years upon its completion, I have finally varnished my painting of &bdquo;The Head of The Baptist.“

For more information on this painting feel free to send me a message.

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The Head

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