drawing
- Museum number
- 2001,0929.12
- Description
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Michel Thévoz in the library of the Art Brut Museum (Dubuffet Foundation); male figure with spectacles looking l, his left hand on the desk in front of him, right hand clutching the back of his neck with a pencil between the fingers; only part of the face, left sleeve and hand completed. 1996
Graphite
- Production date
- 1996
- Dimensions
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Height: 500 millimetres
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Width: 700 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing of Michel Thévoz, director of the Art Brut Museum of Lausanne, was completed in his office above the museum. It forms part of a series of portraits of people who, in the words of the artist, 'have taken risks to change the world', including the Dalai Lama, writer Günter Wallraff and film-maker Wim Wenders. Although the drawing might appear unfinished Laroux has intentionally left large areas of the paper untouched, claiming to know that the work is finished when the white of the paper is 'transformed'.
Lit. Olivier Mongin, 'Paysages urbains, suivre le trajet du regard', éditions de l'Age d'Homme, 2003, p. 121; Jean Lacouture, Michel Thévoz and Nicolas Mann, 'Portraits parlés', éditions de l'Age d'Homme, 2006, pp. 126-7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2016, July-Nov, London, BM, "On Not Knowing: The Bridget Riley Art Foundation and Central Saint Martins at the British Museum".
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,0929.12
