The model – Philippe Trefois
🔹 Technique: Oil on linen canvas
🔹 Dimensions: 116 x 89 cm
🔹 Price: €6,000
🔹 Original artwork signed on the back – Certificate of authenticity provided
A presence split between matter and mystery.
In The Model , Philippe Trefois offers us a profoundly unsettling vision of the body, a theater of flesh and shadow where identities waver. The main figure, simultaneously seated and suspended, dissolves into a palette of vibrant blues, organic purples, and acid yellows. Facing it, another form stands, spectral, like a reflection of the unconscious or the memory of a forgotten gesture.
Trefois doesn't imitate reality—he fractures it. Through his spatulas, his layering of textures, and his instinctive line, he reconstructs being from emotional fragments. Each drip, each tension, bears witness to a struggle between matter and spirit, between the human form and what it leaves unsaid.
The model is not just a study of the body. It is an inquiry into presence, perception, and that invisible boundary between what is shown and what is retained.
A work that speaks to the intimate, to the enigma of our own reflection.
