Fontaine Scarelli Vanity For Sale

Vanity is a painting about performance and surface — the gap between how things appear and what they are. Working in oil, acrylic, and charcoal on a tall canvas (213 × 122 cm), Scarelli builds a composition that is simultaneously beautiful and precarious, its evident refinement undercut by the charcoal's insistence on register and record. The title's connotation of futility — the vanitas tradition of painting that frames beauty as transient and ultimately meaningless — runs through the work without overwhelming it. Scarelli is not making a moralistic painting but a formally sophisticated one, in which the subject of vanity is examined with an eye simultaneously critical and appreciative. Completed in 2026, Vanity is among the most formally elegant works in this presentation.