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Roy Forget
France
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Artist highlights
- Group shows participant
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Solo shows participant
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 27.6x27.6in
About this artwork
“Contingences” is French for “contingencies.” Planning for all possible outcomes in life is often looking at things in a shade of black, where possibilities become risks and hope becomes folly. In this typical Parisian street (it is, in fact, la rue Claude Bernard in the 5th arrondissement, right by the Panthéon), one meets two distinct groups of figures. On the right, two male figures enter the painting, clothed and comfortable, one with a dog…
and the other holding a very content cat in his arms. On the right, stationed against the walls of the buildings, sitting on the sidewalk, are a woman, without clothing, ill-appearing, a boy, clothed only with what appears to be a sort of loincloth, and a very famous beggar, one that was once painted by Édouard Manet (the full-length portrait is now in the Norton-Simon Museum in Pasadena, California).
This group on the right are the possible outcomes and contingencies for the two young men who are entering the painting.
This group on the right are the possible outcomes and contingencies for the two young men who are entering the painting.
Roy Forget
France
Credentials
- Group shows participant
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Solo shows participant
- Works on commission
« Follow the path that leads to nowhere. »
Roy Forget is an experienced artist based in France whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and in the United States. He describes his works as a way to contemplate the world he lives in, putting a painterly order into it. Forget's diverse compositions center around the human figure. Not satisfied with the cursory symbolism of the human form, he endeavors to find its weight and its presence.
