Signed Open Edition Print - The Nightingale From H.C Andersen

This is a signed open edition fine art print.

Each piece is hand-signed and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Edition: Signed open 

Printing: Offset 

Paper: 170gsm matte, premium quality

Origin: Printed in Italy

About the Artwork

This painting is part of a series inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Nightingale — the artist’s favorite among his stories. In the fable, the Emperor attempts to keep the bird and its song only for himself, but the spirit of art cannot be imprisoned. When replaced by an artificial bird, the true nightingale vanishes, and the mechanical one proves powerless to save him.

The story becomes an allegory of beauty, authenticity, and the fragile balance between art and possession. Art lives only in freedom — it ceases to exist when reduced to ornament or control.

Here, the Emperor’s Garden is reimagined as a luminous, decorative landscape: winding paths, vivid blossoms, and pools of color echo both Persian gardens and folkloric tapestries. Linking human and animal worlds, the painting turns Andersen’s parable into a contemporary meditation on the tension between artifice and life, between decoration and essence, between captivity and the living pulse of creation.