La Sauterelle

LA SAUTERELLE Acrylic on Canvas | 16" × 20" | Ready to Hang

The Grasshopper. Light-footed. Here and then not.

La Sauterelle is a figurative painting in the classical tradition of the nude — rendered with the kind of quiet, attentive skill that takes years to develop and a lifetime to make look effortless. The figure is cropped, intimate, partially draped in white — her dark hair cascading, her posture neither posed nor unaware but somewhere in between. The kind of moment that exists just before self-consciousness arrives.

And then — two horizontal strokes of pure colour. Cobalt blue. Blush pink. Cutting across the upper canvas with the casual confidence of a contemporary intervention that has no interest in explaining itself. They do not describe anything. They do not illustrate. They simply insist — this is now, this is paint, this is a conversation between centuries.

The figure belongs to Courbet, to Ingres, to the long history of painted women who were looked at. The marks belong to today. Together they make something that is neither historical nor contemporary but entirely its own thing — a nude that knows exactly what it is and what it isn't.

La Sauterelle. Light-footed. Never quite where you expect her.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 16" × 20" original acrylic on canvas
• Ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Never quite where you expect her.