Robert Redford 🟢

The Robert Redford Vintage Portrait is an earlier painting by Peter Engels, created in 2019. Measuring 65 × 80 cm and stretched on a classic wooden frame, it is a smaller and more intimate canvas compared to the artist’s recent monumental works, making it an accessible entry into Engels’ oeuvre.

Painted entirely with the palette knife, the portrait is executed in black and white, giving it a timeless, vintage character. Redford is shown head-only, wearing sunglasses, his features defined by bold contrasts of light and shadow.

Peter Engels himself says: “I love to paint sunlit skin. The clair-obscur makes a portrait interesting.” That fascination with light and contrast shines through in this portrait, where chiaroscuro effects sculpt Redford’s face with cinematic intensity.

This is a unique, signed original—an opportunity to own a work by a master portraitist at a lower price point, while still acquiring the texture, character, and storytelling that define Engels’ art.