La Liberté, L’Indifférent, 2026
GPC-2644
Pencil and collage on paper
Two parts 70 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 70 x 101 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso of the second element, centre: “ “La Liberté, L’Indifférent” / Giulio Paolini / 2026”
Private collection, Turin
• Winged figure: Henri Rousseau, La liberté invitant les artistes à prendre part à la 22ème exposition des artistes indépendants, 1906, oil on canvas, 175 x 118 cm, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; reproduction from L’opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere. Classici dell’arte 29 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1978), plate XXXIII.
• Male figure from Alexander Adrion, L’arte della magia (Milan: Mazzotta, 1979), p. 105 (“Il bambino appeso per un capello”).
• Figure in costume: Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pierrot, dit autrefois Gilles, 1718-19, oil on canvas, 184 x 149 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
