Madama Butterfly: Yellow Sun (Rafael Colón Painting)
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Description
Madama Butterfly: Yellow Sun (Rafael Colón Painting)
The artist Rafael Colón pays tribute to the Met Opera production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. This beautiful hand-painted piece features a young geisha standing on the edge of the water with a pagoda in the background and “Madama Butterfly” painted along the edges in black.
Each painting is one of a kind and is done in the artist’s NYC studio using oil, acrylic, and marker paints. Signed and dated 2024 on back.
Rafael Colón’s work is in the collection of the Queen of Sweden, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, the Tony Hawk Foundation, and others. His art has been featured at El Museo del Barrio and at The Asia Society New York City.
- Paint on canvas
- 11” W x 14” H
- One of a kind
- Unframed
History
Puccini’s original version of Madama Butterfly premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1904. The composer was inspired to write an opera about a tragic love between a young Japanese geisha and an American Navy officer after seeing David Belasco’s play by the same name performed in London in June 1900. Puccini’s score includes many Japanese folk melodies, and is one of his most sweeping and sophisticated. It remains one of the world’s most popular operas.
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