EDITION INFORMATION

This male nude portrait is available as part of a strictly limited, artist-signed edition across three print sizes. Each print is individually numbered and produced to archival standards.

Next Available Edition Numbers:

Medium: 18 × 22 inches : Edition 2/25

Large: 28 × 34 inches : Edition 1/10

Extra Large: 40 × 49 inches : Edition 1/3

Once all editions are sold, no further prints will be made.

ABOUT THE WORK

The Weight of Victory is a portrait of mythic exertion and private reckoning — a male nude whose classical symmetry belies the emotional complexity held within. The subject, captured in a moment of suspended release, tilts his face toward an unseen source, as if in prayer, defiance, or deliverance. Every muscle seems caught between exertion and surrender, from the clenched hand at the chest to the taut line of the thigh, creating a compositional tension that reverberates across the frame.

The lighting evokes the high drama of Baroque painting, but the figure’s presence is wholly contemporary. The tattoos inscribed across his skin — a pair of theatrical masks, a pair of boxing gloves, and the word Victory inked across the sternum — serve not as decoration but as narrative glyphs, suggesting a life marked by spectacle, struggle, and performance. In this, he recalls not the untouched statues of antiquity but the living warrior, the fallen hero, the bruised saint.

There is no artifice here — no idealized gesture or ornamental pose. Instead, The Weight of Victory offers something more rare: a study of strength without arrogance, of beauty without performance. It is a portrait that speaks not only to the eye, but to the body and the soul — an image that holds, in its silence, a kind of sacred thunder.

ARTWORK FORMAT AND MATERIALS

Each fine art print is produced on Hahnemühle Baryta Rag — a museum-grade, 100% cotton archival paper renowned for its luxurious surface and luminous detail. Prints are surrounded by a 1.5 inch white border and are hand-signed and editioned by the artist. Works are shipped unframed to ensure preservation and collector flexibility.

PRICING AND SELECTION

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COLLECTOR NOTES

• ✅ Signed and numbered by Troy Schooneman

• ✅ Archival, museum-grade print quality

• ✅ Strictly limited edition — no reprints once sold out

• ✅ Certificate of Authenticity available upon request

• ✅ Ships professionally packaged and unframed

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