Woman of the Tenere

Portrait of a toubou woman from the village of Chirfa, near the abandoned town of Djado, in the north of Niger. These villages are located in the Tenere desert, a very desolated area, which shows a crude landscape of endless dunes of sand, scorched by the terrible heat that sun irradiates...

The painting was made with oils in a wooden table, from an original photo taken around 1960. I only used black, white and natural siena colors to paint it.