Contemporary art - Oil - L'Oeuf Inversé

Aditional Information

Period	Contemporary (1945-today)

This work, executed in a generous impasto style, transforms the fried egg into an almost abstract and hypnotic motif: the yolk and the white are reversed. The yolk becomes white, rounded, and smooth like a pearl of milk, contrasting with the white, which becomes yellow and textured, filled with translucent bubbles that evoke both the sizzling heat of cooking and living organic matter.

The centered composition, the limited palette (intense yellow-ochre / off-white / subtle gray-beige), and the thick texture create a tactile and almost sensual presence, celebrating the mundane everyday as an object of luminous and meditative contemplation.

The Inverted Egg - 2026

Oil on canvas.

Not stretched on a frame.

Artist’s signature on the back of the canvas.

Artist’s stamp on the back of the work.

Shipped with a certificate of authenticity.

Total dimensions: 80 x 80 cm (92 x 92 cm with borders).

The white borders around the work will make it easier to mount the canvas on a wooden stretcher.

Shipped rolled in a suitable tube.

Delivery within 2–3 weeks as the work is currently out of my studio (on display).

Artist Biography

Jean-Marie Gitard, alias Mr Strange is a French artist born in 1964 who lives in the south of France.

After studying art history and a rather classical approach of visual artist, Mr. Strange, largely inspired by surrealism and carried by a curious and inventive personality, has gradually moved away from classical painting to focus on polymorphic forms, mixing painting and sculpture. This is the period of the "Spictures".

His artistic evolution then leads him to appropriate the digital medium that allows him to deepen his inner world and bring a singular look at the world around him without constraint or limit, what he calls his photo manipulations. Hybridization, logic of the absurd, subversion, are the doors of predilection of the artist. From birth to death, from the individual to society, he spares no one. Mr Strange handles surrealism with a certain derision, and proposes a reflection on the world sometimes poetic, sometimes caustic but always sharp.

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