A Woman
Mixed media on canvas
‘Mec Art’ period (1963 – 85)
Signed and dated twice lower right: « Bertini, 1966 »
Countersigned, titled, dated and inscribed on the reverse on the frame.
Dimensions :
Height: 75 ¼ in. Width: 50 in.
Exhibition:
Bertini Rétrospective 1948-1984, Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 2 October-10 November 1984
Provenance :
Former private collection, Paris ; acquired directly from the artist
Remarks :
This piece is characteristic of the artist’s Mec-Art period, which stands out by the recourse to photographic transfer on emulsified canvas. He uses, reuses a whole imagery of everyday life like, among others, press photos, posters or advertisements, etc. He extracts them from their original context and reappropriates them by integrating them to his piece, thus creating astonishment. He adds shapes borrowed from the world of machinery and which evoke modernity. This act, defined as a ‘bertinization’ of the iconography of the modern world is the very hallmark of the artist. He often represents women, sometimes contemporary, sometimes as Madonnas, sometimes pin-ups but always modern and object of fascination.
