Cherchez la Femme (Original Painting)

In Cherchez la Femme, she sits alone in a Paris café, the Eiffel Tower behind her, quietly taking a sip while meeting our gaze. She neither smiles nor looks away.

She is beautiful, but it is her self-possession that makes her formidable. She seems aware of being observed, yet entirely uninterested in pleasing the observer.

She is a woman who does not need to explain herself.

Perhaps that is what makes her alluring: she cannot easily be known, impressed, or possessed. Like the rare jewel, her value does not depend upon who desires her.

Paris provides the setting. Romance provides the mythology.

But the woman remains her own.