Oil painting
Great Philosopher
Original title: Grande Philosophe
A face made of bricks, cigar in mouth, under a frilled lampshade.
Either the head is coming out of the wall or the wall has grown a face: wide blue eyes, a smoking cigar, and for a hat a ruff hanging beneath a high window. On the right a brick pier has had a human silhouette cut out of it. Thought, here, is as thick as masonry, and the philosopher seems to find that rather funny.
Price on requestunique piece
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 80 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.
