CALVIN
The Last Supper, 2023
Oil, acrylic, and mixed media on canvas
Created in Valletta, Malta
Size: 72 x 48 in / 182.8 x 121.9 cm
Depth: 36 mm
Price: $1,450,000 USD
In The Last Supper, CALVIN reimagines one of history’s most sacred moments as a meditation on human fragility, devotion, and transformation. The work does not depict a biblical narrative — it dissects it, translating faith into pure gesture.
The central figure, defined by intersecting white crosses, hovers between revelation and erasure. It is not a portrait but a presence — an emblem of humanity caught between silence and salvation. Surrounding it, a field of carmine, violet, and pale rose surges with intensity, recalling the rhythm of heartbeat and breath.
CALVIN’s medium is battle and surrender at once. Oil, acrylic, and oil stick collide across the surface — scratched, rewritten, and layered until color becomes emotion in physical form. Each mark carries both immediacy and endurance, a dialogue between matter and meaning.
The white oval at the base — inscribed THE LAST SUPPER — functions as both table and threshold, a vessel for offering and loss. Around it, spontaneous lines and abstract symbols create a tension between chaos and contemplation, forming a visual liturgy without words.
Created in Malta, the work reflects the island’s duality of light and solitude. The Mediterranean luminosity filters through the dense layers of paint, softening their violence with moments of quiet radiance — the divine tempered by the human.
Valued at $1,450,000 USD, the price reflects the scale, complexity, and art-historical significance of this composition. As one of CALVIN’s most commanding Neo-Expressionist works, The Last Supper encapsulates his ongoing dialogue between spirituality and material force — where paint itself becomes the act of belief.
A study in devotion and destruction, The Last Supper stands as a contemporary icon: a confrontation with the sacred through the language of the flesh.
