Oil painting
What If…
Original title: Si l’on…
A woman in a pink jacket lathers her chin with a shaving brush.
White foam on her cheeks, red nails, brush in hand. In front of her an ostrich cranes its neck; an arrow with a devil’s tail points at her face; a motorbike and a couple in evening dress float in the cut-up sky. What if the roles were swapped? The smallest canvas in the catalogue (59 × 40 cm) asks, and does not stay for an answer.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59 × 40 cm
- Year
- 2000
- 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.