Title of the painting: Audrey Hepburn
 📌 Collection: Black and White Portrait
 🎨 Artist: Vincent Bardou
 📏 Dimensions: 100x81x3 cm
 🖌 Technique: Oil paint, spray paint, indelible ink
 📅 Year: 2025
 🖼 Unique Work: Yes
 📐 Format: Rectangle
 🛠 Support: Canvas mounted on premium wooden frame (Dalbe)
 🔳 Thickness: 3 cm | Profile: 30 x 40 mm
 🎨 Edges: Painted for immediate hanging (without framing)
 🔒 Finish: Acrylic varnish (2 coats) for optimal protection
 ✍️ Signature: Signed lower right and countersigned on the back
 📜 Authenticity: Delivered with certificate signed by the painter Vincent Bardou

 Vincent Bardou's Audrey Hepburn transcends the simple portrait to offer a visual reflection on the duality of celebrity, beauty and art. Audrey Hepburn, more than an actress or a model, embodies a timeless icon, a figure both fragile and resolute, illuminating the world of cinema and fashion. This portrait, revisited through the prism of street art, explores this complexity by combining the softness and sophistication of Hepburn's image with the brutality and intensity of the urban world.
 Through his use of black and white oil paint for the portrait and very colorful graffiti colors for the background, Vincent Bardou invites us to reflect on the tension between classical elegance and the energy of the modern world. The portrait of Audrey Hepburn, captured in a moment of contemplation with her cigarette, becomes the point of convergence between the timelessness of her beauty and the artistic rebellion of street art. The torn effect that runs through the work is a metaphor for this tear between two worlds: that of Hollywood iconography, perfect and smooth, and that of raw art, alive and imperfect.
 The choice of indelible ink and oil paint, fused with touches of spray can, creates a powerful dialogue between the permanence of Audrey Hepburn's image and the transience of urban artistic trends. Each brushstroke and spray on the canvas reinforces the question of time: Audrey Hepburn, who has crossed eras to become an icon of elegance and emotion, is here confronted with an art that refuses stability and celebrates rupture, imperfection and rebellion.
 This work does not just pay homage to Audrey Hepburn; it reimagines her through the eyes of a 21st-century artist, capturing her essence while pushing us to reflect on the nature of art, celebrity and humanity. Hepburn, with her captivating gaze and unforgettable silhouette, becomes a symbol of the transition between past and present, between the sweetness of nostalgia and the brutality of today's world. The painting invites us to introspect on the evolution of beauty, celebrity and art, while celebrating the timeless figure of Audrey Hepburn.