"Funny Couple Candlesticks"
AMAZING PRETENCIOUS COUPLE What a curious couple: elegant, flirtatious, chatterbox lady seems to annoy her worldly spouse to the highest degree. PS: if you know these people in real life, the comparison is fortuitous but offer them these candlesticks…. Jacques Brel would have sketched them better than me….. "Madame walks her dog…." This couple of dandies, anthropomorphic candlesticks, is part of a series of subjects addressed by the artists below: These polychrome candlesticks are signed on the terrace Guillemin, famous caricaturist who, like Dantan and Daumier, knew how to depict his contemporaries with insight. Monsieur displays his cigar, Madame, myopic as a mole, curls up her ribs while suffocating her dog. Monsieur does not even look at her, turns his back on her, sets his sights elsewhere while arching his back; I'm sure his presence and his well-groomed moustache will be noticed.... Ah, Jacques... if you could hum your poems to us again and again and again...