Two women in the market, Guatemala, the arums

Small painting of two Guatemalan women in bust form, one from the back holding a large bouquet of arums and the other from the front, on the right, her eyes looking down at a stall of orange fruit.

The two aligned faces would appear to be components of the same woman, were it not for the cold and warm colours that distinguish the two garments. The two braids decorated with yellow straps of the woman on the left, seen from behind, emerge from a beautiful dark hair haloed by white arum flowers.

Fascination for these Indian hairstyles, and more generally the artist’s homage to the colourful beauty of these Indian women, silent in their world.