Description
Charles Lapicque (French, 1898-1988) Rendez à César, 1958 Canvas. Height 116, Width 89 cm. Provenance: Alain and Violette Merle collection. Bibliography: Philippe Bouchet, "Charles Lapicque, Le Dérangeur", éd. Thalia, 2009, photograph of Charles Lapicque in front of the work p.151. Proud of this painting in front of which he poses for a photographic lens, the artist treats this subject in two other paintings kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon (DG 370) and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (AM 1977-634). A confrontation between imperial Rome, with the chariot of Caesar's triumph, and Christian Rome, illustrated by a Byzantine "pantocrator" Christ with a crucifixion nimbus, "Rendez à César" is the metaphysical superposition of explosive colours. If Lapicque affirms here that the kingdom of God is not earthly, his painting is the testimony of a movement of the painter's heart towards the artists who preceded him, witnesses of vanished worlds and announcing the celestial Jerusalem.
48
Charles Lapicque (French, 1898-1988) Rendez à César, 1958 Canvas. Height 116, Width 89 cm. Provenance: Alain and Violette Merle collection. Bibliography: Philippe Bouchet, "Charles Lapicque, Le Dérangeur", éd. Thalia, 2009, photograph of Charles Lapicque in front of the work p.151. Proud of this painting in front of which he poses for a photographic lens, the artist treats this subject in two other paintings kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon (DG 370) and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (AM 1977-634). A confrontation between imperial Rome, with the chariot of Caesar's triumph, and Christian Rome, illustrated by a Byzantine "pantocrator" Christ with a crucifixion nimbus, "Rendez à César" is the metaphysical superposition of explosive colours. If Lapicque affirms here that the kingdom of God is not earthly, his painting is the testimony of a movement of the painter's heart towards the artists who preceded him, witnesses of vanished worlds and announcing the celestial Jerusalem.
