Robert Detheux (1932-2010) - La Femme aux deux visages –...

Payment required before the evening of October 25. No shipments possible from October 26 for nearly 3 weeks (absence). Robert Detheux (1932-2010) – The Woman with the Two Faces – circa 1985 Artist: Robert Detheux (Brussels, 1932 – Tournai, 2010) Title of the work: The Woman with the Two Faces Date: circa 1985 Signature: Red stamp on the back: “ROBERT DETHEUX / Atelier de l’artiste”. Technique: Painting and collage on paper. The body, in a black sheath, is painted: drapery, folds, texture. The head alone is a collage, printed face, visible grain, placed on the black. A black bar crosses the mouth. Dimensions: 46 × 36 cm Condition: Very good overall condition. The black, the collage, and the bar are clean. The drapery material is intentional. Sold unframed. Provenance: Artist’s studio fund (acquired directly). Studio stamp on the back. Description: Rare painting by Detheux, circa 1985. On a black background, a woman stands upright, enclosed in a sheath. No arms. No feet. The body is a dark painted drapery, almost a standing shroud. The head is something else. Collage: a white, oval face, printed, eyes wide open, a thin smile. On the forehead, a second face, smaller, eyes closed or barely open. Two faces, a single head. A black bar crosses the mouth of the first. She does not speak. She looks. The Woman with the Two Faces expresses the essence. Detheux does not make a portrait. He assembles a presence: painting for the body, collage for the head, censorship for the mouth. Between spectral erotism, vanity, and black humor, the work rests in this face-to-face. Tight format, pure black, rarity of these gaine-clad figures from 1985: a characteristic piece of his maturity, for aficionados of Belgian surrealist art sensitive to collage, double faces, and appearance. Artist biography Born in Brussels in 1932 and passed away in 2010, Robert Detheux is a singular, demanding, and deeply endearing figure of Belgian art in the 20th century. A graduate of the Saint-Luc Institute in Fine Arts in Brussels, he taught graphic expression at the Academy of Tournai until 1996, while developing a personal body of work with great coherence and notable freedom. His artistic journey unfolds in several major periods: • In the 1950s-1960s, he asserts a powerful surrealist and expressionist language, marked by intense portraits and dreamlike compositions. • In the 1970s, he sensually and obsessively explores the theme of the body and the female face, developing hybrid figures and highly elaborated textures. • The 1980s-1990s, to which this painting belongs, see the flowering of a more hybrid and grotesque universe, mixing erotism, black humor, collage, and poetry. • Finally, the 2000-2010 period, particularly sought after today, is that of total maturity: spectral portraits, appearances, hybrid figures and feline creatures executed with exceptional mastery. Little exhibited during his lifetime, Robert Detheux freely created an intimate, subversive, and poetic universe that belongs only to him. Rediscovered in recent years thanks to the unveiling of his substantial studio archive (nearly 1500 works on paper), his work now enjoys a legitimate and growing enthusiasm among collectors in Belgium, Spain, and Europe. A master of drawing and matter, Detheux leaves behind an authentic, vibrant, and timeless oeuvre that continues to surprise and seduce with its evocative power, deep humanity, and modernity. Collecting Detheux means entering a unique dreamlike world, populated by hybrid figures, double faces, and appearances.

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