🔹 Technique: Oil on linen canvas 🔹 Dimensions: 160 x 100 cm 🔹 Price: €9,000 🔹 Unique original artwork – Certificate of authenticity provided
A silent scream, a figure dislocated under the weight of power.
With Pope Innocent X , Philippe Trefois revisits the icon of the papal portrait with visceral audacity. Inspired by the legacy of Velázquez as much as by the distortions of Bacon, he shatters the lines of authority to reveal its inner fragility. The pontiff becomes a vibrant specter of shattered, tormented colors, a puppet of flesh and anguish suspended between heaven and earth.
The convulsive curves and interlacing pigments seem to simultaneously build and destroy it. The gaze, though absent, weighs heavily with its invisible force. The sacred fabric of the garment metamorphoses into a chaotic flow of liquid forms, defying the boundaries of body and soul.
In this powerful work, Trefois does not paint a man, he paints the idea of power – its grandeur, its absurdity, its inexorable solitude.
