Le Peintre Blanc, 2024
Painting : acrylic · 32 x 29 x 0.01 cm 12.6 x 11.4 x 0 inch · Ready to hang
$595
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Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
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Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
32 x 29 x 0.01 cm 12.6 x 11.4 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
40 x 30 x 2 cm 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Jérôme MESNAGER - The White Painter - 2024
With this unique piece, Jérôme Mesnager delivers a striking variation on his famous “White Body," an emblematic figure of freedom and human energy. Against a deep, almost cosmic black background, the figure seems to rise, suspended between movement and weightlessness, conversing with a monumental lightbulb – a powerful symbol of creation, ideas, and inner light.
The artwork captures the moment when art becomes a vital impulse. The raw, expressive white lines contrast intensely with the dark background, creating an immediate and hypnotic visual tension. Every gesture of the artist is legible, almost physical, making this piece profoundly alive.
Imagine this artwork in your space. It's not simply hanging on a wall: it radiates.
This moving figure is not static — it acts, it rises, it triggers. The lightbulb becomes a metaphor: the precise moment when an idea is born, when everything changes.
To own this work is to capture that rare moment: when inspiration arises in its purest form.
It's a piece that speaks to those who create, undertake, dream. A work that doesn't decorate — it makes a statement.
Jérôme Mesnager has been a major figure in French urban art since the 1980s. A pioneer of street art, he is recognized worldwide for his “White Body", a universal symbol of peace, light and humanity.
His works are featured in numerous private collections and institutions, and his work has left a lasting mark on the contemporary art scene. He belongs to that generation of artists who brought art out of the galleries and into the city—and into people's minds.
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Presentation
Jerôme Mesnager joined the École Boulle in 1974, where he followed the cabinetmaking course, and where he stayed as a teacher. In 1979, he joined Yves Got's and Georges Pichard's comics course. The two were teaching at the Duperré School.
In 1982, he co-founded Zig-Zag, a group of very young artists who decided to take over the streets by drawing graffiti and to occupy abandoned factories through artistic performances.
On January 16, 1983, he invented the man in white, "a symbol of light, strength and peace". Jerôme Mesnager drew this white silhouette in the entire world: from the walls of Paris to theChinese Wall.
In 1990, the artist left his parent's house and moved to Paris. He showed works drawn on wooden fences at the Loft gallery, and published a catalog of these works. In 1995, he produced a large mural painting in the Ménilmontant street in Paris, "C'est nous les gars de Ménilmontant".
Jerôme Mesnager is often associated with Nemo, a character with a black silhouette wearing a raincoat and a hat. He was part of the Paris street art scene, with artists such as Blek le rat, Miss Tic, Jef Aérosol, Némo, etc. and of the Free Figuration movement in the early 80s.
In 2006, he produced a series of paintings inspired by art nouveau and art deco. The same year, hedrew his white characters in the Hôtel des Academies et des Arts in Paris.
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