Lot n° 16
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MALLIÉ - Lot 16
MALLIÉ
VINCENT MALLIÉ
TÉNÉBREUSE
Livre Second (T.2), Dupuis 2022
Original plate no. 47. Signed.
India ink and white gouache on paper
37 × 50 cm (14.57 × 19.69 in.)
"This first image, with its tragic love affair, I saw as a kind of dance of death, in which Arzhur intertwines Islen. I wanted it to be sensual, with butterflies fluttering around in a saraband, to leave the reader wondering what's really going on. Is he really killing her? I used a dry brush to draw the little witches' dance and show their incantation, which visually takes the form of a scroll spinning on itself. It's almost like a shamanic dance. The little witches are beautiful characters, embodying both maternal devotion and destructive love. I gave them a shape that changed according to the needs of the story, even veering towards Spider-Man when they were bouncing around. The difficulty also lay in the fact that they are a classic fairytale figure, and mine had to be singular."
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