MALLIÉ - Lot 17

MALLIÉ VINCENT MALLIÉ THE QUEST FOR THE TIME BIRD - BEFORE THE QUEST L'Omégon (T.8), Dargaud 2024 Original plate no. 86. Signed. India ink and white gouache on paper 37 × 50 cm (14.57 × 19.69 in.) "The last panel of this plate is reminiscent of the first in the main cycle, where the Unknown, seated in the same armchair as this one, tells the story of Bragon to three young children. In fact, we find three young children at the end of the story; they're not the same ones, of course, but they're there in the wink of an eye. Here, it's the end of the road, Bragon can finally settle down, and what interested me was to show his collapse, both physical and psychological. He has shut himself away in his pain, and that's why I tried to camouflage his gaze, to accentuate the impression of solitude and absence. He's come a long way to get here, and he finally puts down his axe, sits down and plunges into his suffering. To transcribe this state of exhaustion, I must have immersed myself in my own state when I finished the last plate of Ténébreuse and put down my pencils. Bragon, in that armchair, was a bit like me at that moment. I didn't have to look very far to capture the weight of the body, of life...".