Hugues DELBERGUE (born 1953). Toujours gagnant, Illustration project for PLAYBOY 1981. Egg tempera on panel, signed middle right. H_61 cm L_50 cm "ALWAYS A WINNER So, are you coming or not? Are you coming or not? Come on, handsome, take a chance. Come and play, that makes two of us." A chance encounter To play the game of life and death. Alone or in groups of up to six, You're always a winner. On the faces of chance the points are marked. Either way, heaven is promised. But we don't say for how long". 1983 - Hugues DELBERGUE

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