Antonio Vidal Rolland (1889-1970) - Le Flâneur

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Signed.

- The flâneur, that figure belonging to the literary mythology of the late century, strolls nonchalantly through the city, watching the pulse of modernity through the smoke of his cigarette with a mix of curiosity and detachment. In this portrait by Antonio Vidal Rolland, the gentleman is no longer a wanderer lost in Baudelaire’s crowd, but a sophisticated exponent of the mundane avant-garde of the twenties. The hat, tilted with studied negligence, alongside the cigarette dangling from his hands, 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 Victorian rigor to embrace a more graphic and assured stylization, proper to fashion illustration and Art Deco. The sitter’s gaze, wrapped in that defiant attitude, seems to challenge the acceleration of the century, reclaiming the right to pause and to roving observation. It is, in short, the visual testament of a time when the city became a stage and the gentleman, with his cigarette as his only staff, the privileged spectator of his own bubbling energy.

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

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