Le fruit, 2008
Charles Belle  

Painting : acrylic · 20 x 20 x 2 cm 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

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Painting : Unique artwork

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This small painting, 20 x 20 cm, has the allure of a secret held in the palm of your hand. At its center, a dark, dense fig emerges from a field of deep violets. There's nothing spectacular here: everything lies in the nuance, the silent saturation of color, the texture that surfaces like skin.

The fig seems to contain more than it reveals. Charles Belle imbues it with an almost meditative presence, both sensual and mysterious. The object ceases to be a still life and becomes an inhabited form, a condensed fragment of night, a discreet pulse.
On this intimate scale, painting acts like breathing: a suspended moment where the gaze draws closer, lingers, listens to what is not said.

Still Life

figurative

Figs

Fruit Artworks

Semi-abstract

Dark blue

Purple

Charles Belle, Le fruit

Charles Belle

France  • 1956

Presentation

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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