Oil painting
Police-politesse
A policeman in a blue forage cap, all smiles, and beneath him two words printed on top of each other.
“POLICE” is stencilled in white capitals and “POLITESSE” in red across it. The joke survives in English, where police and polite also start out together and do not always arrive together. The tilted, friendly face has the warmth of an old comedy film. A small format (45 × 60 cm) for a large question of vocabulary.
Price on requestunique piece
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 × 60 cm
- Year
- 2008
- 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.
