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Acrylic, pastel and gr…
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Enki BILAL A Century of Love Sarajevo
Acrylic, pastel and gr…
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Lot no. 4
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Enki BILAL
A Century of Love
Sarajevo
Acrylic, pastel and grease pencil on paper pasted on cardboard for an illustration for this collection published in 1999 by Fayard. Text by Dan Franck.
41.5 x 25.8 cm
A magnificent drawing, which inaugurates this moving series of portraits of women and a singular journey through the twentieth century. The choice of Sarajevo was no accident: it was the city where the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in June 1914. This beautiful dancer, emerging from that icy white cloud, whom painters loved to use as a model and who was courted by so many admirers, is here to bear witness to what the world - her own world, and that of her beloved son, with all the wonderful memories that go with it - was like before the tragedy that plunged the whole of Europe into a terrible conflict. Enki Bilal obviously knows the former capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina well - it's part of his history. Sarajevo under siege is also the starting point for Le Sommeil du Monstre (The Monster's Sleep), and three newborn babies who will experience the grief of separation before being reunited. And then there's the red, which takes hold of the reflection in the mirror and tells so many stories, underlines what needs to be underlined, and has haunted the artist's work for so long.
Enki BILAL
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