Artist’s Description

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She was just twenty-one when she found the second set of books. Her father, the man who designed half the city’s skyline, hadn’t just cut corners. He’d buried people in the foundations. Literally.
Tonight, wearing her mother’s favorite red dress, she’s come to the final gala in his honor not to mourn him — but to bury him a second time. That stare is a promise. The city will either celebrate her name, or it will burn. She hasn’t decided yet.

Collector’s Insight

Second Burial is the most focused and portrait-like of Santina’s figurative works — the composition stripped back to figure against a deep charcoal ground, with no interior setting to compete for attention. The result places the full weight of the painting on the subject’s expression, and it holds. The green eyes are rendered with care, and the vivid crimson of the dress against the near-black background gives the piece a clean, graphic tension.

The fictional backstory Santina provides is genuinely compelling — a young woman returning to bury her father’s legacy rather than mourn him — and collectors who appreciate art with built-in narrative will find the title and character study an interesting package. A bold, readable figurative painting for a hallway, study, or any space that can take a direct gaze.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind gouache painting — not a print or reproduction.

Materials & Presentation

• Original gouache painting
• Artist: Paul Santina (Little Saint Art)
• Artwork size: 18 × 24 inches (45.72 × 60.96 cm)
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