Kat Allibe "Tears Beyond the Veil" Original Mixed Media on Canvas, Signed, 2026
Viridian Eclection
The PieceThe most emotionally direct painting in the collection, and at thirty-six by forty-eight the largest treatment Allibe has given a single subject. Selene built a life around a love that end...
The Piece
The most emotionally direct painting in the collection, and at thirty-six by forty-eight the largest treatment Allibe has given a single subject. Selene built a life around a love that ended in one breath. The tears are painted as rivers running down the canvas rather than as an expression on a face — the grief is in the surface, not the features.
What keeps the work from sentiment is the artist's discipline. The face stays unresolved. The palette holds to a warm ground with one cool note, and the wet passages are worked wet-into-wet then partially scraped, so the picture reads as something that happened to the canvas rather than something arranged on it. There is an opening in the upper field — the shimmer the artist describes as what she found inside the loss.
History & Provenance
Kat Allibe is a French-born contemporary painter working in Reno, Nevada, and the originator of Emotional Impressionism. She painted privately for over thirty years — more than 150 works, almost none of them sold — before entering formal study at the Milan Art Institute in 2025.
Viridian Eclection is her private dealer. This painting comes directly from the studio, with a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by the artist.
Product Details
| Artist | Kat Allibe (Catherine Allibe), French, working in Reno, Nevada |
|---|---|
| Title | Tears Beyond the Veil |
| Date | 2026 |
| Medium | Mixed media on canvas |
| Dimensions | 36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm) |
| Signature | Signed by the artist |
| Framing | Unframed; ready to hang or frame to specification |
| Authentication | Certificate of authenticity issued and signed by the artist |
| Provenance | Direct from the artist's studio via Viridian Eclection, private dealer |
| Condition | Excellent original condition as released by the artist. Condition Guaranteed. |
| Availability | One of a Kind — 1 Available |
Why It Belongs in Your Home
Art that carries real feeling is rare at any price and almost absent at retail, where most work is chosen to offend nobody. This one will be the piece a visitor stops in front of and does not immediately comment on. Give it a wall of its own and enough distance to be seen whole.
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