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 a mere anecdotal detail. Ever since his play “Le Classique et l’Indien” (1977), the figure has embodied the painter’s double: opposite the Classical — reason, order — the Indian carries the wild, the mad, the uncontrollable. A theme he would explore for more than thirty years, culminating in his “Indiennes” series.

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

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

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