A close-up profile portrait, a patchwork of orange and black touches on a light ground

Paintings

Tête

1984 · Oils on canvas

Year
1984
Support
Canvas
Medium
Oils on canvas
Availability
Available
Price
Price on request

About this work

A profile face, framed close, covered in orange and black touches like skin tanned by the sun. No setting, no anecdote: the canvas concentrates entirely on this forehead, this nose, this closed mouth, with the economy of means typical of Mathiot's 1980s work.

A close-up profile portrait, a patchwork of orange and black touches on a light ground