Michel Bourgeois (1933-2020) - Les Idoles

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- In this 1965 canvas, Michel Bourgeois orchestrates a procession of African idol figures advancing like a line of bleeding totems under a spectral light. The palette, saturated with visceral reds and acidic pinks, gives the figures an organic vitality, transforming the carved wood into a mystical flesh that thumps with the force of ancestral dramatism. They are not mere fetishes, but presences demanding monumental sculpturality; their geometric shapes and schematic faces seem to bear the weight of an invisible sky, projecting a shadow that overflows the frame.

- Image dimensions unframed: 100 x 65 cm / 102 x 66.5 cm with a custom frame.

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