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Hervé Télémaque (né en 1937)
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Hervé Télémaque (né en 1937)
Nouvelles de France, 1989
Mixed media, collage and pencil on paper, numbered Series B, III lower left, titled, signed and dated lower right
Mixed media, collage and pencil on paper, numbered Series B, III lower left, titled, signed and dated lower right 74.5 x 109 cm
23 1/4 x 43 in.
We thank the artist Hervé Télémaque for confirming the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France
Nouvelles de France, dating from Télémaque’s African period, evokes a letter received from France in Africa in both its composition and colours. The brown band at the top of the canvas suggests the opening of an envelope, while the pencilled inscriptions reveal snatches of messages, sometimes in careful handwriting, sometimes scribbled spontaneously. The «news from France» is conjured up more directly by pieces of newspaper scattered over the canvas, but in orderly fashion, like the arrangement of the various messages that make up a letter. The texture and warm colour of Africa’s baked soil complement the crumpled, flattened French newspapers.
Nouvelles de France, 1989
Mixed media, collage and pencil on paper, numbered Series B, III lower left, titled, signed and dated lower right
Mixed media, collage and pencil on paper, numbered Series B, III lower left, titled, signed and dated lower right 74.5 x 109 cm
23 1/4 x 43 in.
We thank the artist Hervé Télémaque for confirming the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France
Nouvelles de France, dating from Télémaque’s African period, evokes a letter received from France in Africa in both its composition and colours. The brown band at the top of the canvas suggests the opening of an envelope, while the pencilled inscriptions reveal snatches of messages, sometimes in careful handwriting, sometimes scribbled spontaneously. The «news from France» is conjured up more directly by pieces of newspaper scattered over the canvas, but in orderly fashion, like the arrangement of the various messages that make up a letter. The texture and warm colour of Africa’s baked soil complement the crumpled, flattened French newspapers.