Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Inner flame,
2025
Natalya Mougenot
Painting : acrylic
30 x 24 x 1.3 cm 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.5 inch
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Dimensions cm • inch
30 x 24 x 1.3 cm 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.5 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
This contemporary expressionist woman's portrait "Inner Flame", executed with elements of fauvism and art naïve, was created by the French artist Natalya Mougenot and makes part of her ongoing series dedicated to Women, where she explores the emotional and spiritual essence of the feminine beyond appearances.
“I don't depict women in an academic realistic way," the artist explains, “as I want to stay free in my expression since my depiction of women is all about feeling rather than literal portrait." This philosophy permeates the work, where authenticity and honesty are her guiding principles: every brushstroke becomes an intimate confession, every bold color a truth revealed. “In my art my main values are authenticity and honesty," she says, suggesting that only by being true to her inner vision can she give voice to the strength and vulnerability of her subjects.
Deeply inspired by the raw emotional power of German Expressionism, the bold, liberated palette of Fauvism, and the direct simplicity of art naïve, Mougenot fuses these influences into a highly personal language of painting. “The colors are my instrument to speak, they transmit the character of the subject," she notes. In Inner Flame, the saturated purples, greens, and blues intensify the brooding expression of the woman portrayed, creating an atmosphere of inner turmoil balanced with resilience.
The title itself reflects Mougenot's belief in a universal vitality: “I called this painting Inner Flame as I believe that in every human being we have that force and that flame which drive us to move on in life." By giving the figure a determined, almost defiant expression, Mougenot lends her subject an air of emotional intensity that reflects the eternal struggle between fragility and strength.
In this way, Inner Flame is not only a portrait but also a mirror of the inner landscapes we all share—an homage to the untamed spirit of women and the fire that keeps them moving forward.
Details:
Acrylic painting on cotton stretched canvas
Varnished with gloss for protection
Signed front and back
Certificate of Authenticity included
International delivery from France
Images in interior settings for inspiration
About the Artist:
Originally from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, and now based in Lyon, France, Natalya Mougenot has spent over two decades refining her artistic voice. Her multicultural background and personal experience inform her bold, expressive works, which have found homes in private collections around the world.
Natalya's distinctive visual language blends Abstract Expressionism, Impressionism, Art Naïf, and Art Brut—resulting in paintings that are raw, instinctive, and emotionally resonant. Across her work, three values guide her: authenticity, sincerity, and honesty.
“Authenticity is everything," she says. “People can always feel when something is real—or when it's not. I want my work to be honest, to come from a place that's true."
In addition to painting, Natalya is also a passionate photographer. Her photographic work—also featured on this platform—mirrors her painterly sensibility: a poetic, observational approach that captures the quiet power of everyday life. For her, photography is both inspiration and a form of presence, often serving as visual sketches for future paintings or existing as standalone works.
Discover more of Natalya Mougenot's work—both paintings and photographs—and step into a world where movement, emotion, and human connection are expressed with striking clarity and truth.
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Natalya is a contemporary french artist living in Lyon.
She was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, the country known for its spacious steppes.
She arrived in France 2003. Since that moment she loves her adoptive country.
She started painting in 2017 and used it as a therapeutic and emotional release during times of crisis. She incorporates this therapeutic approach in her artistic creative process till now.
In her artistic practice she refers to the terms of metamodernism, which proposes to look at the world from the position of the inner adult.
As an artist and as a woman she translates the experience of her personal search for balance based on harmony between mind, soul and body. This balance, in her opinion, is the pillar for the inner adult.
Important components of her work are authenticity, soulfulness, sincerity, emotionality and honesty. She immerses the objects and the characters in the world where there is no falsity, rudeness, loneliness and indifference.
She works rapidly and is constantly sensitive to the details.
Her artistic process is a fine balance between a pre-meditation and spontantainty which helps her to create her expressive atmospheric artworks with a modern touch of impressionism by cultivating a naive art approach.
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