REINE DE SAINT PAUL (XXth) - Lot 238

REINE DE SAINT PAUL (XXth) The Medium Mixed media on paper 60 x 50 cm Slight folds Note: With La Medium, Reine de Saint Paul deploys a vibrant, deeply singular imagination, in which the female figure becomes a medium of ornamentation as much as of enigma. The drawing, precise and delicately cross-hatched, serves as the foundation for a profusion of colorful - almost jewel-like - motifs that transform everyday objects and the body into veritable talismans. The artist plays with this hieratic frontality, giving her model a presence that is both naïve and sovereign, out of time. The work tells less of a portrait than of an inner universe: that of a personal symbolism nourished by rites, signs and Mediterranean reveries. Reine de Saint Paul's instantly recognizable style, somewhere between singular art and decorative tradition, asserts the strength of a vision that combines precision, exuberance and mystery.