Le Retour de l'Éléphant prodigue, fin

Olivier O. Olivier

1998

Pastel on paper mounted on canvas

173 x 130 cm

©ADAGP 2023

All that remains of the elephant are its bones, displayed in the middle of the Natural History Museum. Visitors observe the animal's skeleton and, more mournfully, the human bones that are the pachyderm's four legs. Yet Olivier O. Olivier depicts this macabre spectacle with his characteristic lightness and humor, and infects the viewer.

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