Galerie Laurentin celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021. Located in Paris at 23 quai Voltaire, it has also been present since 2013 in Brussels on rue Ernest Allard in the Sablon district.

Since its opening, Galerie Laurentin has devoted itself to modern art by producing monographic exhibitions while regularly organizing exhibitions of contemporary artists.

Participation in important fairs, such as TEFAF Maastricht, Salon du Dessin in Paris, Art Brussels , Artgenève, FAB Paris and Art Paris gave it international visibility.

In this small drawing, produced around 1965, we can appreciate the artist's claimed economy of means, emphasizing the strength of line and the emotional charge of color.

It also reveals his typical pictorial vocabulary. Executed with colored inks, a technique he used from 1965 to the early 1970s, it shows a small - but imposing - bust figure, frontal. Only a black outline delimits the contours of this figure, as it blends in color with the orange-red background (Terre de Sienne tones were Folon's most popular at the time) which occupies the entire composition.

The extreme stylization common to Folon's work is evident here: mouth, nose and limbs are rapidly executed, and the yellow, round, marble-like eyes seem to stare back at us, lending the figure a singular strangeness, heightened by the long, tubular limbs which seem to hang from his head.

The latter make us wonder, despite the artist's familiarity with the theme of heads. They take on a variety of shapes, often wearing relatively original headgear. When open, hands and birds emerge from them to represent the character's thoughts and reveries, inviting the viewer to reflect.