"Portrait By Ares Antoyan"
Portrait oil on canvas 81cm x 65cm signed lower left against signed on the back Arès ANTOYAN born in 1955 in Los Angeles to a French mother and an American father He was interested in painting very early on, declaring himself self-taught He nevertheless took 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 reveal themselves without really offering themselves, as if the looks that touched them were more disturbing for them than caresses.