Still Life by the Sea, Circa 1981
Painting : oil, canvas · 43 x 63 x 1 cm 16.9 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch · Ready to hang
€4,500
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Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
43 x 63 x 1 cm 16.9 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
45.5 x 65.5 x 3 cm 17.9 x 25.8 x 1.2 inch
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Description
In "Still Life by the Sea", Latvian painter Elvīra Stupenkova brings together the intimacy of a still life and the openness of a maritime landscape.
Two slender bottles, a transparent glass vessel, a large seashell and a smaller shell are arranged against a quiet blue horizon. Long green leaves curve gently across the composition, connecting the objects with the sea and sky behind them.
The glass vessel occupies the centre of the painting. Its transparent surface captures the surrounding light, reflecting subtle shades of blue, grey and pale green. The two bottles rise vertically behind it, creating a measured architectural rhythm and balancing the rounded forms of the shells.
The large shell introduces warm notes of ochre, terracotta and muted rose into the predominantly cool palette. Its organic shape contrasts with the vertical bottles and the horizontal lines of the sea. A smaller shell in the foreground creates an additional point of intimacy and invites closer observation.
Stupenkova constructs the background through delicate transitions of turquoise, sea blue, pearl grey and white. The horizon remains deliberately softened, giving the impression that the interior setting and the maritime landscape are slowly merging.
The composition reflects the artist’s association with Romantic Realism. Everyday objects are treated not simply as decorative elements, but as carriers of atmosphere, memory and quiet emotional presence.
The sea may be understood as a symbol of distance and continuity, while the vessels suggest preservation, human presence and the passage of time. The empty glass introduces transparency and silence, creating a contemplative space at the centre of the painting.
The visible canvas texture and subtle brushwork retain the physical character of the original work. Variations in tone and surface become more apparent according to the direction and softness of the surrounding light.
The painting is signed “Elvīra” in the lower-right corner.
The canvas is professionally stretched on a solid wooden stretcher measuring approximately 2 cm deep. It is presented in the original frame selected and installed by Elvīra Stupenkova herself, making the frame an important part of the artwork’s historical presentation.
The original canvas measures 43 × 63 cm and is mounted on a 2 cm-deep solid wooden stretcher.
The painting is delivered in the frame selected and installed by Elvīra Stupenkova herself. The complete framed dimensions are 45.5 × 65.5 × 3 cm.
The frame is therefore not a later decorative addition but part of the work’s preserved historical presentation.
The artwork is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Abstract Art Gallery.
Abstract Art Gallery records the work within the Elvīra Stupenkova Legacy Collection & Archive and provides a lifetime authenticity and provenance guarantee.
Presentation
A graduate of the Design Department of the Art Academy of Latvia in 1983 and of Riga Technical University, she combined the discipline of design with a lifelong dedication to painting. She further developed her practice with Professor V. Kozins and artist J. Hermanis and was a member of the Latvian Designers' Society (LDS No. 131).
Associated with Romantic Realism, Stupenkova worked primarily in oil and watercolor. Landscapes, maritime scenes, flowers and still lifes became recurring subjects through which she explored atmospheric light, memory, seasonal change and the poetry of everyday life.
From the 1980s onward, she participated in exhibitions and cultural activities in Latvia and beyond. Her surviving archive includes exhibition photographs, invitations, press material, correspondence and academic records.
According to her family and surviving archives, hundreds of her works entered private collections in Latvia and elsewhere in Europe during her lifetime, largely through the traditional offline art market.
She occasionally worked under the name Alla Bogomazova; Stupenkova, her maternal grandmother's surname, became the name principally associated with her artistic legacy.
Following her death in 2021, paintings and extensive archival material remained preserved by her family. Selected works and documents have been entrusted to Abstract Art Gallery, Riga for research, preservation and international presentation.
The Elvīra Stupenkova Legacy Collection & Archive is now being progressively catalogued, preserving and reconnecting her work with the documented history of her artistic life.
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