Hand-baked, glazed ceramic tile.

Signed and numbered by the artist on an accompanying certificate of authenticity.

'Makeup (red coat)' by Claire Tabouret is a ceramic work measuring 13 × 13 × 1 cm, painted with the loose, expressive brushwork that defines her portrait practice. A woman's face fills the small square tile — dark hair pulled back, warm ochre skin built up with unblended rust-toned shadows, and a fragment of deep red coat visible at the lower edge. The muted sage-grey ground is characteristic of Tabouret's restrained palette. Known for portraits that hold figures in states of emotional ambiguity, Tabouret here translates that sensibility onto fired clay, a material that adds a tactile, object-like weight to what might otherwise read as a sketch. The intimacy of the format — barely larger than a hand — concentrates the subject's direct, unreadable gaze into something unusually immediate.