Edith Piaf LE

Gheorghe Virtosu

Limited Edition to celebrate Edith Piaf’s 100th-anniversary, authorized by the artist in 2019.

Intriguing and beguiling, Virtosu’s Edith Piaf fully realizes the potential for figuration to communicate notions of interiority and thought. The artist finds ways to imbue his imaginary subject's form with a sense of identity. Conjured from Virtosu’s imagination and mediated onto the canvas through his vital creative process, the present work is a heady concoction of art-historical allusion and elegant symbols. Presenting a subject that is familiar, Edith Piaf endlessly engages the imagination, acting as a generative source for narrative association and speculation.

She sang about love and the men in her life as well as her home city, Paris. Piaf became an idol of French culture in the 1940s and 50s with hits such as “La vie en rose” or “Hymne a l’amour” and “Non, je ne regrette rien”.