Goûter au sommeil, 2009
Charles Belle  

Painting : oil · 203 x 203 x 3.5 cm 79.9 x 79.9 x 1.4 inch · Ready to hang

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203 x 203 x 3.5 cm 79.9 x 79.9 x 1.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

This painting evokes a mystery that is never fully revealed. No black appears: the depth comes solely from layers of saturated colors, superimposed and blended until they create their own inner light. The surface vibrates, almost incandescent, as if the color itself carried a breath.

Within this chromatic intensity, a form seems to emerge—perhaps an onion, perhaps a vanitas, something that evokes time, life contained, the fragility of what falls apart. Nothing is asserted, everything remains suspended. The work oscillates between abstraction and reminiscence, between appearance and disappearance, leaving the viewer free to project their own perception onto it.

This painting thus becomes an open space, a place where color generates its own presence and where meaning circulates without ever settling.

Still Life

Floral

Vanity

Botany

Environment

Onions

Plants

Semi-abstract

Black

Pink

Charles Belle, Goûter au sommeil

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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