Works
Oil
painting
55pieces
Fifty-five canvases, from 1996 to 2020. Leo Novoro takes on power, money, ideology and the myths of our time with the tools of classical painting: glazes, impasto, trompe-l’œil. Each picture is a stage on which our civilisation performs.
Oil painting
01
Coronavirus – Still Life
Oil on canvas · 135 × 110 cm
02
Crown of the World Hierarchy
Oil on canvas · 120 × 120 cm
03
Macrohard
Oil on canvas · 195 × 145 cm
04
Wanted
Oil on canvas · 100 × 73 cm
05
Subpersonalities
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
06
The Eye of Aether
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
07
Antique
Acrylic and oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
08
Ptah – The Initiator
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
09
Virile Earth
Oil on canvas · 130 × 97 cm
10
The Time Machine
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
11
Joker
Oil on canvas · 160 × 145 cm
12
The Gold Card
Oil on canvas · 91 × 73 cm
13
La Parisienne
Oil on canvas · 80 × 60 cm
14
The Master
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
15
Nostalgia
Oil on canvas · 120 × 120 cm
16
Wealth
Oil on canvas · 93 × 71 cm
17
Police-politesse
Oil on canvas · 45 × 60 cm
18
The Serpent Tempter
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
19
Sale
Oil on canvas · 80 × 60 cm
20
Bellifontain
Oil on canvas · 116 × 81 cm
21
And There You Have It
Oil on canvas · 130 × 98 cm
22
Great Philosopher
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
23
The Principle of a Flying Saucer
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
24
The Artists
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
25
Russian Rules
Oil on canvas · 100 × 81 cm
26
Obsession
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
27
Twins
Oil on canvas · 130 × 97 cm
28
Curiosity
Oil on canvas · 80 × 60 cm
29
Le Travesti
Oil on canvas · 130 × 80 cm
30
The Ace of Clubs
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
31
Fleur bleue
Oil on canvas · 73 × 60 cm
32
Gold’s Owner
Oil on canvas · 130 × 98 cm
33
The German Dominant
Oil on canvas · 150 × 100 cm
34
Fundamental Rights
Oil on canvas · 80 × 60 cm
35
Source of Humour
Oil on canvas · 80 × 70 cm
36
The Surrealist
Oil on canvas · 130 × 81 cm
37
Go Ahead…
Oil on canvas · 91 × 73 cm
38
Guitarist
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
39
Breakfast on the Grass
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
40
The Muse
Oil on canvas · 160 × 145 cm
41
Cunning
Oil on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
42
Hubris and Pride
Oil on canvas · 110 × 75 cm
43
A Mission to Mars
Oil on canvas · 116 × 89 cm
44
Nous Paris
Oil on canvas · 60 × 45 cm
45
The Awkward Motif
Oil on canvas · 80 × 60 cm
46
A Wine Cellar
Oil on canvas · 115 × 80 cm
47
Jesus
Oil on canvas · 130 × 100 cm
48
Thrill-Seekers
Oil on canvas · 140 × 110 cm
49
Power and the People
Oil on canvas · 100 × 70 cm
50
The Place of Waste
Oil on canvas · 60 × 40 cm
51
Bolshevism
Oil on canvas · 107 × 83 cm
52
The Chameleon
Oil on canvas · 70 × 50 cm
53
The Music of the Spheres
Oil on canvas · 120 × 85 cm
54
What If…
Oil on canvas · 59 × 40 cm
55
The Queen of Spades
Oil on canvas · 105 × 75 cm
Reading
Civilisation at play
Cards, crowns, logos: the trappings of power are also its masks.
Leo Novoro’s titles work like keys: Wanted, The Ace of Clubs, Macrohard, The Gold Card. They borrow from gaming, policing, finance and advertising — the four languages that run public life.
The painting itself stays classical in its means: a prepared ground, successive layers, patient reworking. It is that craftsman’s seriousness which makes these scenes so strange: power is painted as though it were a noble genre.