Les pas du silence, 2021
Painting : oil · 237 x 377 x 3.5 cm 93.3 x 148.4 x 1.4 inch · Ready to hang
€330,000
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237 x 377 x 3.5 cm 93.3 x 148.4 x 1.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Almost every autumn, Charles Belle returns to his quinces. Their dented, gnarled shapes touch him with their humility and simple truth. In this large painting, the fruits remain silent, as if suspended in a still moment. Their presence imposes itself, imbued with a quiet gravity.
Here, light plays an essential role: it shapes volumes, caresses rough edges, and slips into the folds of forms. Between brightness and shadow, Belle deploys a subtle chiaroscuro, where each nuance seems to breathe. The painting thus oscillates between revelation and withdrawal, between nascent light and benevolent darkness.
The background, far from being a simple decoration, fully participates in this poetic tension. It opens onto dense, moving, almost organic depths, where matter becomes space. It is from this depth that the quinces emerge, as if lit from within, carrying a presence that is both earthly and meditative.
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Charles Belle is a painter whose work is distinguished by a poetic and powerful exploration of nature, often deployed in monumental formats. Starting from reality, the artist goes beyond it to reach the very essence of life. For him, nature is not a subject: it is a state, an energy, a passage towards abstraction.
This is reflected in the film “Beyond the Silences", the result of 16 years of filming in his studio (official JIFA24 selection – Louvre Museum).
In 2023, seven French museums joined forces to present the first major retrospective dedicated to Charles Belle, bringing together more than 1,600 works and offering a cross-sectional view of his career.
Present at the biggest contemporary art fairs — Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, FIAC, Art Brussels, Art Paris, Art on Paper Brussels and FAB Paris — Charles Belle has also been a founding member of the Art Identification Standard (AIS) consortium since 2019.
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