Robert Detheux (1932-2010) - La joueuse de cartes – 2008
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Robert Detheux, La joueuse de cartes – 2008, mixed media on paper, 60 × 46.5 cm, origin Belgium, original edition, good condition, signed.
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Robert Detheux (1932-2010)
The Card Player – 2008
Artist: Robert Detheux (Brussels, 1932 – Tournai, 2010)
Title of the work: The Card Player
Date: 2008
Signature: Signed and dated “Detheux 2008” bottom left. Titled in pencil, by the artist, “The Card Player” at the bottom of the sheet.
Technique: White chalk, charcoal and brown wash on paper. The face and bust are modeled with hatching and rubbing of chalk, deepened with black. The background is a warm wash, overlaid, with free strokes. Large sheet folded in four: the folds, vertical and horizontal, cross the figure and are part of the sheet as it remained.
Dimensions: 60 × 46.5 cm
Condition: Good condition for a studio sheet of this size. The drawing is sharp, the chalk adherent, the title and signature legible. Folded in four, with clearly visible central crease lines crossing the face. Soft paper, grain, halos and some conservation stains, no major tears.
Sold unframed.
Provenance: Artist’s studio collection (acquired directly).
Description:
Large sheet from 2008, titled by Detheux himself. The player is not at a table. She is the game.
Head tilted, emerging from the brown with white chalk, eyes barely opened, mouth closed. The bust below dissolves into shoulders and arms suggested.
To the right, an oval circled, almost a card or an empty plate. To the left, a hatched form, sleeve or hand, remains open.
The crease in a cross cuts the sheet into four. It passes over the forehead, the nose, the mouth. Detheux did not draw despite the fold: the figure settled on it. The card player is thus already shared, like a folded card, even before being played. The title, carried at the bottom in pencil, confirms the reading without explaining it.
We are in the final mode: spectral portrait, warm wash, little color, rare title in the artist’s hand. The graphic surrealism of the 1950s — displaced object, figure under the thing — is here reduced to a face and a name. The card is not shown. It is the player who has become it.
Signed, dated, titled, in good format: a sheet characteristic of the late years, for collectors of Belgian surrealism sensitive to buried figures and titles carried by the artist.
Artist biography:
Born in Brussels in 1932 and passed away in Tournai in 2010, Robert Detheux is a singular figure in Belgian art of the 20th century.
A graduate of the Saint-Luc Institute in Fine Arts in Brussels, he taught graphic expression at the Academy of Tournai until 1996, while pursuing a personal body of work of great coherence.
From the 1950s, he established himself with a very personal surrealist and graphic language. He received the Belgian Young Painting Prize in 1953, 1954 and 1971.
The following decades deepen the same territory. 1970s: body and female head, hybrid figures, textures. 1980s-1990s: grotesque, eroticism, black humor. 2000-2010: spectral portraits, appearances, creatures. The present sheet belongs to this last period.
Unexhibited during his lifetime, Detheux worked freely. The unveiling of his studio archive (about 1,500 works) made this coherence visible.
His drawing, demanding and immediately recognizable, now attracts collectors of Belgian surrealism, in Belgium, Spain and Europe.
Seller's Story
About SR Fine Art
With nearly 28 years of experience in the art market, I am passionate about rediscovering artists’ studios and bringing their works to a wide audience on Catawiki.
I specialize in Belgian and European modern and contemporary art. My flagship collection is the studio archive of Robert Detheux (nearly 1,500 works on paper). I also offer surrealist drawings, beautiful abstract paintings from the 1950s, magnificent nude photographs by Michel Pinel, contemporary paintings, Cobra compositions, and works by Marcus de Vestele, Gundi Falk, René Mels, Eugène Eechaut and many others.
From intimate drawings to large formats, there is something for every taste and every budget. The vast majority of my auctions start at 1 € with no reserve price, giving everyone the chance to acquire unique pieces.
Every shipment is prepared with the utmost care using professional museum-quality packaging to ensure perfect condition upon arrival.
Join my growing community of satisfied clients and follow my new auctions to discover rare works from these exceptional studios.
Thank you for your trust and happy bidding!
SR Fine Art
Translated by Google TranslateRobert Detheux (1932-2010)
The Card Player – 2008
Artist: Robert Detheux (Brussels, 1932 – Tournai, 2010)
Title of the work: The Card Player
Date: 2008
Signature: Signed and dated “Detheux 2008” bottom left. Titled in pencil, by the artist, “The Card Player” at the bottom of the sheet.
Technique: White chalk, charcoal and brown wash on paper. The face and bust are modeled with hatching and rubbing of chalk, deepened with black. The background is a warm wash, overlaid, with free strokes. Large sheet folded in four: the folds, vertical and horizontal, cross the figure and are part of the sheet as it remained.
Dimensions: 60 × 46.5 cm
Condition: Good condition for a studio sheet of this size. The drawing is sharp, the chalk adherent, the title and signature legible. Folded in four, with clearly visible central crease lines crossing the face. Soft paper, grain, halos and some conservation stains, no major tears.
Sold unframed.
Provenance: Artist’s studio collection (acquired directly).
Description:
Large sheet from 2008, titled by Detheux himself. The player is not at a table. She is the game.
Head tilted, emerging from the brown with white chalk, eyes barely opened, mouth closed. The bust below dissolves into shoulders and arms suggested.
To the right, an oval circled, almost a card or an empty plate. To the left, a hatched form, sleeve or hand, remains open.
The crease in a cross cuts the sheet into four. It passes over the forehead, the nose, the mouth. Detheux did not draw despite the fold: the figure settled on it. The card player is thus already shared, like a folded card, even before being played. The title, carried at the bottom in pencil, confirms the reading without explaining it.
We are in the final mode: spectral portrait, warm wash, little color, rare title in the artist’s hand. The graphic surrealism of the 1950s — displaced object, figure under the thing — is here reduced to a face and a name. The card is not shown. It is the player who has become it.
Signed, dated, titled, in good format: a sheet characteristic of the late years, for collectors of Belgian surrealism sensitive to buried figures and titles carried by the artist.
Artist biography:
Born in Brussels in 1932 and passed away in Tournai in 2010, Robert Detheux is a singular figure in Belgian art of the 20th century.
A graduate of the Saint-Luc Institute in Fine Arts in Brussels, he taught graphic expression at the Academy of Tournai until 1996, while pursuing a personal body of work of great coherence.
From the 1950s, he established himself with a very personal surrealist and graphic language. He received the Belgian Young Painting Prize in 1953, 1954 and 1971.
The following decades deepen the same territory. 1970s: body and female head, hybrid figures, textures. 1980s-1990s: grotesque, eroticism, black humor. 2000-2010: spectral portraits, appearances, creatures. The present sheet belongs to this last period.
Unexhibited during his lifetime, Detheux worked freely. The unveiling of his studio archive (about 1,500 works) made this coherence visible.
His drawing, demanding and immediately recognizable, now attracts collectors of Belgian surrealism, in Belgium, Spain and Europe.
Seller's Story
About SR Fine Art
With nearly 28 years of experience in the art market, I am passionate about rediscovering artists’ studios and bringing their works to a wide audience on Catawiki.
I specialize in Belgian and European modern and contemporary art. My flagship collection is the studio archive of Robert Detheux (nearly 1,500 works on paper). I also offer surrealist drawings, beautiful abstract paintings from the 1950s, magnificent nude photographs by Michel Pinel, contemporary paintings, Cobra compositions, and works by Marcus de Vestele, Gundi Falk, René Mels, Eugène Eechaut and many others.
From intimate drawings to large formats, there is something for every taste and every budget. The vast majority of my auctions start at 1 € with no reserve price, giving everyone the chance to acquire unique pieces.
Every shipment is prepared with the utmost care using professional museum-quality packaging to ensure perfect condition upon arrival.
Join my growing community of satisfied clients and follow my new auctions to discover rare works from these exceptional studios.
Thank you for your trust and happy bidding!
SR Fine Art
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Edition
Original
Artist
Robert Detheux (1932-2010)
Title of artwork
La joueuse de cartes – 2008
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
2008
Condition
Good condition
Height
60 cm
Width
46.5 cm
Style
Surrealism
Period
2000-2010
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