Gérard Garouste, “L’apiculteur et les indiens” — Signed and numbered print — France, 20th century

“L’Apiculteur et les Indiens” — a print by Gérard Garouste, Hors Commerce, signed and numbered 8/10.

The Minotaur emerges from a Greek-inspired setting, its meander and foliate scrolls drawn in black line, almost architectural in feel.
The face escapes this rigour: hand-painted, in browns and pinks that soften the figure.

In Garouste’s work, “the Indian” is never an anecdotal detail. Ever since his play “Le Classique et l’Indien” (1977), the figure has embodied the painter’s double: facing the Classical — reason, order — the Indian carries the savage, the mad, the uncontrollable. A theme he would explore for more than thirty years, up to his series of “Indiennes”.

The full title of this print echoes that of a book Michel Onfray devoted to his painting in 2009.

Presented in museum-quality framing, with anti-reflective and anti-UV glass.

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