<Paysage n° 24>

In parallel with a series of vanities and portraits, the Madagascan-born painter Yves Oppenheim created a series of twenty-six landscapes starting in 1986. In Paysage n° 24, the background motifs appear to dissolve into broad strokes, contrasting with the earlier hyperrealistic variations of the series. Enlarged to a monumental scale, this Mediterranean landscape with Malagasy influences transforms into almost abstract pictorial spaces.