Kehinde Wiley

"Louis XVI, The Sun King," 2006, Cast marble dust and resin, Edition of 250, (10 x 9.5 x 3 inches).

The first bust is a bernini influenced, baroque style composition positioning a young man dressed in contemporary urban street attire styled as a 17th century monarch. the heroic pose is vigorously alive and imperious. the cloak, or hoodie in this case, is swept up, as if by a gust of wind, and the figure turns with resolute composure in the direction of the wind, as if calmly facing a challenge.

- Cerealart


"St. Francis of Adelaide," 2006, Cast marble dust and resin, Edition of 250, (12 x 10 x 5.5 inches).

The 2nd Neoclassical bust was influenced was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingre's stained glass window, St. Francis of Adelaide in Paris at The Chapel of Saint Ferdinand. The strong, proud, athletic young man is dressed in street attire and holding a symbolic book and scepter. He appears as a learned monarch. His soul searching contemplative eyes have the feeling of Cezanne's "Still Life with Skull" or Rogier van der Weyden "Portrait of a Man Holding a Book." The composition is familiar but the influences are beyond easy recognition. The philosopher appears as a hero in pursuit of revealing the universal truth in the 21st Century.

- Cerealart



"After La Negresse, 1872," 2007, Cast marble dust and resin, Edition of 250, (11 x 10 x 9 inches), through Cerealart.



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"The Gypsy Fortune-Teller," 2007, (This tapestry composition is based upon François Boucher's "The Collation" in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Jacquard Tapestry, Woven in Belgium, Italian Cotton, Hand signed and numbered, Edition of 48 plus 10 AP, (76 x 96 inches), through Cerealart.