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Figures d'État2027
From myth to flesh
The gesture radicalises: the paint thickens into monumental impasto, slashed by a weave of sharp filaments that probe, tear and expose what hides behind the official masks of the century's great figures. By setting his artist name against the faces that fractured History, Député reaches the logical end point of his trajectory.
Canvases
Studies — French figures
Charles de Gaulle
StudyCharles de Gaulle
Années 60
François Mitterrand
StudyFrançois Mitterrand
1981
Jacques Chirac
StudyJacques Chirac
Sommet de Johannesburg, 2002
Nicolas Sarkozy
StudyNicolas Sarkozy
Meeting
Robert Badinter
StudyRobert Badinter
Abolition de la peine de mort, 1981
Simone Veil
StudySimone Veil
Assemblée nationale, 1974
Studies — American presidents and the machinery of power
Studies — Twentieth-century world leaders
Che Guevara
StudyChe Guevara
Guerrillero Heroico, Alberto Korda
Fidel Castro
StudyFidel Castro
Mao Zedong
StudyMao Zedong
Place Tiananmen
Margaret Thatcher
StudyMargaret Thatcher
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev
StudyMikhaïl Gorbatchev
Nelson Mandela
StudyNelson Mandela
1990
Winston Churchill
StudyWinston Churchill
Yousuf Karsh, 1941