Price range: £70.00 through £900.00
A meticulously staged checkmate where a single black pawn, backed by stronger allies, pins the white king, turning hierarchy on its head.
Description
This piece centres on a decisive, improbable checkmate: a lowly black pawn seals the white king’s fate, supported by the positioning and threat of the more powerful black pieces. The tableau inverts expected hierarchies, transforming the pawn into the agent of victory while the white queen and bishop, icons of influence, stand impotent. Lit with hard, theatrical contrast, the pawn’s ascendancy and the king’s isolation are amplified against the grand architectural backdrop, which reads as the weight of institutions watching the moment of reversal. The non-standard clustering turns the board into a stage for collective strategy and moral commentary: power is contextual, agency can be borrowed, and even the smallest piece can end the game. It’s a portrait of checkmate as a social metaphor: precision, pressure, and the quiet triumph of the underestimated.
Additional information
| Size | 25cm x 53cm, 9.8inches x 20.9inches, 35cm x 74cm, 13.8inches x 29.2inches, 50cm x 106cm, 19.7inches x 41.8inches, 75cm x 159cm, 29.5inches x 62.7inches, 100cm x 213cm, 39.4inches x 83.7inches |
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| Frame | Print only |
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