Leo NovoroPainter & mosaic artist

Oil painting

And There You Have It

Original title: Et voilà le travail

A man with no face holds up his own portrait: the head is on the paper, not on the shoulders.

He sits with his back to us in a blue suit that looks carved from stone, writing with one hand and raising with the other a flawless image: a smiling face, sharp as a photograph. Where his own head should be there is a ball of crumpled paper. Job done, picture perfect. What it cost the rough draft is another matter.

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Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
130 × 98 cm
Year
2007
Collection
Oil painting
Status
Unique piece
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ViewingThe work can be seen at the Fontainebleau studio, by appointment.

About the series

Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.

Original work, Fontainebleau studio · The whole series