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.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130 × 98 cm
- Year
- 2007
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
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.