PIERRE ET GILLES (Actifs depuis 1976) Lot n° 144

PIERRE ET GILLES (Active since 1976) Achilles (Staiv Gentis), 2011 Painted photograph, pigment print on canvas titled, signed and dated on the back D : 100 cm Exhibition : Masculine/masculine, the naked man in art from 1800 to today. Musée d'Orsay September 24, 2013 - January 2, 2014. n°44 page 65 Inspired by Pierre Julien's Dying Gladiator, this marble sculpture is his reception piece at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1779, now in the Louvre Museum. It is an emblematic work of their series devoted to mythological heroes, in a theatrical setting that is a true homage to neoclassicism. Reproduced on page 99 in Obsession masculin, éditions Flammarion.