"Woman In Black Dress By Ares Antoyan"
Large oil on canvas 116cm x 89cm signed and dated lower left Antoyan 18 Ares ANTOYAN born in 1955 in Los Angeles from a French mother and an American father He was interested in painting very early on, declaring himself self-taught He still followed the courses of the "California Institute of Art" Arrived in France in the 1980s he successfully exhibited at the Marumo gallery rue Saint-Honoré in Paris in the 1990s Painter of women, his works possess the splendid shamelessness of women who love the violence of the desires they provoke. They veil themselves without really offering themselves, as if the glances that touched them were more disturbing for them than caresses.