Antonio Vidal Rolland (1889-1970) - Le Flâneur

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Signed.

- The flâneur, that character belonging to the literary mythos of the fin de siècle, saunters nonchalantly through the city, watching the pulse of modernity through the smoke of his cigarette with a blend of curiosity and detachment. In this portrait by Antonio Vidal Rolland, the gentleman is no longer a wandering figure lost in Baudelaire’s crowd, but a sophisticated exponent of the worldly vanguard of the twenties. The hat, tilted with studied negligence, alongside the dangling cigarette, speaks to us of a democratic and summery elegance, typical of someone who has made leisure one of the fine arts.

Vidal Rolland captures the subject’s essence with a brushstroke that abandons the Victorian rigor in favor of a more graphic and confident stylization, typical of fashion illustration and Art Deco. The sitter’s gaze, wrapped in that attitude of defiance, seems to challenge the acceleration of the century, reclaiming the right to pause and wandering observation. It is, in short, the visual testament of a time when the city turned into a stage and the gentleman, with his cigarette as his sole staff, into the privileged spectator of his own effervescence.

- Image dimensions without frame: 60 x 85 cm / 78 x 102.5 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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