JEAN-OLIVIER HUCLEUX | Portrait de César

graphite drawing on paperExecuted in 1988.

Acquired from the artist by the present owners

Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Jean Olivier Hucleux 1971-1999, 22 October 1999-16 Januray 2000; catalogue, p. 112, illustrated

This work was inspected framed. The white border has very slightly yellowed. There is a small humidity stain in the lower left corner as well as small scattered foxing spots. This work is in good condition.
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Hulceux's painting is an eminently mental act, never limited by time or exhaustion. The more he works on the precise recreation of a subject, of an extremely detailed image, the more it escapes him in its essential possibility to be captured or perfectly finished and resolved. As the artist confesses himself, he wished he could never stop. Continuing, expanding the cold and visionary penetration of the image. It requires huge manual work, up to the point that the painting seems like the gigantic enlargement of a snapshot.