Max-Daniel - Alcove in Black Stockings

Max-Daniel — Alcove in Black Stockings
Original work — Unique piece — Signed and certified

About the artist

Max-Daniel is a Parisian artist whose career spans over fifty years of practice, research and experimentation. Doctor in Arts and Art Sciences from the Sorbonne, he early developed an interest in the intersections between traditional techniques and emerging technologies. As early as 1989, within the framework of the programmed art laboratory at Centre Saint-Charles, he created his first works combining computing and pictorial practices.

His work has been shown in several exhibitions in Paris and elsewhere, notably in Machines to communicate at the Cité des sciences in 1991-1992, at Galerie Egner in 1994 with Retrait-recouvrement, at Galerie IESA in 1995, and then in other contexts, notably at the Futuroscope.

From 1989 to 2026, alongside his activity as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the university, Max-Daniel has pursued continuous personal research around hybrid works, today often referred to under the term mixed-media. This research explores possible continuities between digital tools, printing processes and painting know-how inherited from several centuries.

Today, he combines AI, digital processing, pigment printing on canvas and oil painting by glazes, velatures and highlights, in a technically open perspective spanning several centuries of history. His work asserts a resolutely post-modern, free and independent stance, distant from conventional categories, traditional circuits and narrow definitions of the art market.

Technical note

This work combines techniques from different eras: AI, digital processing, pigment printing on canvas and oil painting by glazes, velatures and highlights, in a technically open perspective spanning several centuries of history.

Finish: glossy oil varnish by Sennelier.

About the work

In this intimate composition, Max-Daniel stages a red-haired female figure, naturally and gracefully seated in a muffled interior, accompanied by a black-and-white cat placed near a floral-decorated lamp. The work plays on the contrast between the enveloping warmth of the atmosphere, the calm sensuality of the pose and the decorative refinement of the clothing, a blue kimono with richly ornate patterns accented with red.

The scene evokes both portraiture, interior painting and a certain tradition of femininity depicted, but here it is reinterpreted in a very contemporary writing, nourished by implicit references to genre painting, glamour, refined illustration and the history of looking. The presence of the cat introduces an almost symbolic counterpoint: it watches, stabilizes the composition and intensifies the domestic, mysterious and slightly theatrical character of the whole.

The work immediately captivates with its chromatic quality. The deep blacks of the stockings, the bright reds of the trim and belt, the luminous blues of the kimono, the ochres of the furniture and the warm tones of the lamp compose a rich, sensual and highly decorative harmony. The pictorial material, enhanced by glazes and highlights, gives depth, softness and presence to the image.

Max-Daniel develops here a painting of intimacy, detail and silent presence. The work fuses visual seduction, technical sophistication and decorative power, while maintaining an elegant distance that keeps it apart from anecdote.

Characteristics
• Artist: Max-Daniel
• Title: Alcove in Black Stockings
• Year: 2026
• Work: original
• Status: unique piece
• Dimensions: 60 x 90 cm
• Support: canvas
• Signature: yes
• Certificate: yes
• Technique: AI, digital processing, pigment printing on canvas and oil painting by glazes, velatures and highlights
• Finish: glossy oil varnish by Sennelier
• Presentation: stretched canvas on frame, ready to hang

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