Jules Atarax (1985) - Dernier humain

This work is the final and ultimate painting of a series devoted to the human condition in a postmodern context, where the individual seems at once still present and already on the path to dissolution.

Oil painting on canvas, it is part of an in-depth exploration of the fragmented human figure—not as a narrative subject, but as a fragile presence, suspended between appearance and disappearance. The human is no longer affirmed there: it is discerned, restrained, dispersed into the material and the pictorial space.

Painting is built up in successive layers. The material is intentionally dense in places, more restrained elsewhere, creating a tension between zones of silence and zones of resistance. The gesture is slow, measured, without demonstrative flair, giving the viewer time to enter the artwork.

This painting marks the definitive closing of the series. No extension, no revival, no later variation will be produced. It represents the final point, at once culmination and threshold, concentrating the full range of themes at stake in the preceding works.

Presented within the framework of the Dantesque Gallery, this work embodies a deliberately selective approach, privileging rare appearances and clearly defined cycles.

By its position as the last piece, this canvas gains a special value within the corpus: it is not a fragment, but a synthesis, a deliberate pause in the creative process. An opportunity.

A unique, signed work, executed in oil on canvas.
Format: 50 × 70 cm.
The artwork will be shipped with the utmost care.