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Todas las subastas / Arte contemporáneo / Robert Detheux (1932-2010) - Portrait bleu au voile – vers 2005
Robert Detheux (1932-2010) – Blue Portrait with Veil – circa 2005 Artist: Robert Detheux (Brussels, 1932 – Tournai, 2010) Title of the work: Blue Portrait with Veil Date: Circa 2005. Signed Signature: Signed “Detheux” at the bottom right. Technique: Ink, blue wash and white chalk on crumpled paper. The hair is a curtain of pen strokes. The face has been tinted blue, the eyes highlighted in white, the forehead crossed by a band of black dots. The paper, folded, retains horizontal creases. Dimensions: 58 × 44 cm Condition: Good overall. The line is clear, the blue is held, the signature legible. Crumpled studio paper, visible horizontal creases, grain and retouchings, no major tears. The folds are part of the sheet. Sold unframed. Provenance: Artist’s studio fonds (acquired directly). Description: Grand portrait from the last period. The face is not described: it is barred. At the top, hair in straight, tight lines that fall over the forehead like a curtain. Under it, a band of black dots crosses the eyes. The pupils, reworked in white, remain visible behind. The veil does not hide. It filters. The nose and mouth are barely indicated, in white, against the blue. The neck and shoulder descend, reworked with chalk, without being closed off. The crumpled paper, with its horizontal folds, divides the figure into registers. The head, the veil, the bust are not on the same plane. The blue, the black of the lines and the brown of the support are enough. No décor. We are in the portraits of the 2000s: appearance, restrained gaze, figure not fully given. Here, the gaze nevertheless passes. Signed, undated, of good size: a sheet characteristic of the latest manner, for connoisseurs of Belgian drawing sensitive to filtered faces and studio blues. Artist biography: Born in Brussels in 1932 and died in Tournai in 2010, Robert Detheux is a singular figure of Belgian art in the 20th century. A graduate of the Saint-Luc Institute in the Beaux-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 surrealist and highly personal graphic language. He received the Young Belgian Painting Prize in 1953, 1954 and 1971. The following decades deepen the same territory. 1970s: body and face, hybrid figures, textures. 1980s-1990s: grotesque, eroticism, black humor. 2000-2010: spectral portraits, apparitions, creatures. This sheet belongs to this last period. Little exposed during his lifetime, Detheux worked freely. The unveiling of his studio collection (about 1,500 works) made this coherence visible. His drawing, demanding and immediately recognizable, today attracts collectors of Belgian surrealism in Belgium, Spain and Europe.
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