Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1979 - Lot 41

Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1979 Black-and-white digital print Dimensions: 30.5 x 20 cm Note: An emblematic portrait of Serge Gainsbourg in the late 1970s, a period when the artist was fully asserting his provocative, non-conformist public image. The theatrical and deliberately sophisticated staging blends baroque references and a casual attitude, aptly conveying Gainsbourg's personal universe of decadent elegance and intellectual provocation. The use of black and white reinforces the expressive power of the gaze and the dramatic tension of the composition, placing this image in the line of iconic portraits that helped forge the Gainsbourg myth, a central figure of French culture in the XXᵉ century.