343. She and him

27 years old.

The young lady was beautiful and captivating, but until this year, Hela had no fame in the art world.

It was an ordinary afternoon.

She locked herself in her studio for several days without sleep.

Until her work was completed.

"The Death of the Clown" did not make a stunning first impression when it first appeared in public.

It was just an ordinary work hanging in a remote corner of an exhibition.

Whether in terms of composition or technique, the painting itself had nothing particularly sensational - it was just a fine piece.

Nor was the content of the painting itself particularly remarkable when described.

A man dressed in red, wearing a cardboard makeshift crown, hung from a gallows, his body turned blue, his hands dangling lifelessly by his sides.

But the location of the gallows was neither a dark execution ground nor a spacious square.

The gallows stood in a bedroom.