Oil painting
The Serpent Tempter
Original title: Serpent-tentateur
A black Eve seated on a cracked egg, and a serpent emerging from a tear in the picture.
She holds one leg straight up like an acrobat and looks at us entirely unruffled. At top right the green snake flicks its tongue out of a patch of night torn from the white ground, and along the upper edge pure colour runs down in drips. He is the one who seems to be hesitating. Temptation has changed sides.
Price on requestunique piece
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 116 × 89 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.
