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."