Isa Sator - LE PRINCE GOURMAND

The Gourmet Prince, Series 1001 Nights, 2016, Isa Sator

The Work
The Gourmet Prince is part of the series One Thousand and One Nights, painted by Isa Sator in 2016.
On a vibrant raspberry pink background, a prince with golden hair, eyes closed, inhales a red rose. He lounges on a violet sofa covered with golden arabesques and white pearls. He wears a bright green coat with orange lapels over a red waistcoat. At his feet, a large tray of Oriental pastries, crisscrossed with a tangle of violet threads. On the right, a golden ewer watches over the scene.

The work is inspired by a passage from One Thousand and One Nights: a passionate tribute to pastries, and especially to kenafa, this dessert of fine strands of dough bathed in butter, honey and syrup. The tale makes of it an antidote to every poison. Isa draws from it a scene of pure sensory pleasure: sight, smell, taste. The violet threads entangled on the tray evoke the strands of kenafa.

A joyful and sensual work, between an Oriental tale and colorist expressionism.

Specifications
- Edges [painted], presented unframed, ready to hang
- Signature: bottom right / titled and signed on the back
- Unique work

Exhibitions
Felix Gallery, Paris / La Table Fleurie, Montreuil, 2016.

Documentation
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

The Artist ISA SATOR

Isa Sator is a French painter, colorist and draftsman born in 1963 in Île-de-France.
A former lawyer at the Paris Bar, she devoted herself entirely to painting from the 2000s, during which she lived in the South Pacific.
A visual artist, Isa Sator has a singular universe at the crossroads of fashion, monumental architecture and contemplative landscapes.
Her work explores the beauty of forms, the poetry of spaces and the essence of beings.

Her major exhibitions:
2026 — Studio opening, Magic City, Saint-Ouen
2025 — The Polar Virgins, Spazio Espositivo Artè, Luciano Marani, Cagliari, It
2024 — Elisabeth Oster Space, Paris 17 - permanent
2023 — Cagliari I Love You Isa Sator, Spazio Espositivo Artè, Luciano Marani, Cagliari, It
2019 — Women Artists Itinerancy #02, New Hope, Pennsylvania, and New York, NY, NY
2019 — 3 Women Paris-New York, Galerie JPHT, Paris 3
2018 — Family Portraits of Bécassine, Galerie JPHT, Paris 3
2017 — France Pavilion, exhibition in Houston, Washington DC & Raleigh, USA.
2017 — The Grand Choux (Les Grandes Cocottes), Orangerie du Sénat, Paris 6
2016 — The Thousand and One Nights, Galerie Felix, Paris 17
2015 — ADN Sator, Galerie JPHT, Paris 3
2014 — The 12 Cities of the World Cup in Brazil, Brixton, London
2009 — Rock’n Roll at all, Virgin Megastore Champs Elysées, Paris 8
2007 — Smart Barbies, National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NY, NY
2003 — African Queen, Rue du Vertbois, Paris 3

What people say about it:
- Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret (lelitteraire.com): a language at the crossroads of Nolde, Cocteau, Masson, Joëlle de La Casinière and Basquiat.
- Ward Morehouse III (National Arts Club, New York, 2007): a painting close to Chagall and Picasso; a trajectory that evokes Gauguin in the southern seas.
- Patrick Wassef (La Gazette des Arts): a vital force always present, a character that has refined with the years.
- Mylène Vignon (Saisons de Culture): the free and extravagant beauty of the Grand Cocottes.
- Vittorio E. Pisu (S’Arti Nostra): “Picasso of the 21st century.”