UNTITLED painting executed for the choreographic show "Monuments" by Robert Kovich 1985
Acrylic on strong paper mounted on canvas
Signed and dated on the back
231 x 166 cm (frame included)
PROVENANCE Collection, Paris
This isosceles triangle where the face of the painter appears in the middle of a meadow bears the seeds of the "Combas style".
Combas style". At the bottom of the canvas, a dog is running behind a cat with its tail erect. The mating of the two animals is depicted in the upper corner.
In this narrative composition with a slightly saucy tone, "the colorist and the draughtsman coexist in contrapuntal mode" (Michel Onfray, Transe est connaissance, un chamane nommé Combas, Paris, 2014, p. 34).
Our work belongs to a series of triangles made for the set of "Monuments", Robert Kovich's choreographic show presented in 1985, on June 28 and 29 in Angers, Salle Beaurepaire, and on June 16 in Fontevraud Abbey. By participating in this show, halfway between a play and a ballet, Robert Combas reconciles his two loves, painting and music. Only seven triangular canvases are known, scattered in private collections, and six costume studies are in the collections of the FRAC des Pays de La Loire (inv. 985052301-06).
1985 was the year of the consecration of Robert
Combas. He was only 27 years old and he was already graced with a travelling retrospective exhibition, organised in France (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des
Sables d'Olonne, Museum of Art and Industry of Saint
Etienne) and in the Netherlands (Gemmeente Museum in Helmond).
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