Collection S.K. - Lot 12

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Collection S.K. - Lot 12
Collection S.K. JEAN-PIERRE GIBRAT LE SURSIS (T.2) Dupuis 1999 Original plate no. 53. Signed. Watercolor and acrylic inks on paper 30.8 × 39.4 cm (12.13 × 15.51 in.) This plate is extraordinarily powerful. It opens with a vertiginous image: a locomotive launched into the void, torn from the bridge by an explosion. A slight low angle shows this machine, symbolizing progress, brute force and fire, hurtling towards chaos. The viewer is caught up in this frozen moment, literally suspended between life and death. There's no need for thunderous onomatopoeia: the density of the colors in these two panels, and the tones of red and black, give these images all the weight they need to make us feel the crush. The last strip is a reversal: Gibrat suddenly takes us back inside the wagon, into the intimacy of the wounded man. Stretched out among the debris that summarizes the past adventure, Julien's face soothed, he addresses his last thoughts to Cécile, perhaps beyond the grave. His words slip gently into silence. Here, death merges with a form of peace. This panel doesn't just show the end of Julien Sarla's adventure: it represents the definitive turning of a world, that of the Occupation, of courage and lost youth. Gibrat's conclusion is one of rare emotion, where the war ends in the fragile beauty of a last breath. I don't think I've ever summed up an entire story in three vignettes, except on this page of Le Sursis... Jean-Pierre Gibrat
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