Edward Kay
The Losers, 2008
Oil on canvas on panel
110 x 140 cms
Edward Kay
La Bête, 2006
Oil on canvas on panel
25 x 36 cm
Edward Kay
Untitled, 2005
Oil on canvas on panel
53 x 37.5 cm
Edward Kay
L'enfant en Froulard, 2005
Oil on canvas on panel
25 x 36 cm
Edward Kay
The Bon Viveur (ii), 2008
Oil on canvas
70 x 60 cms
Kay’s The Bon Viveur (ii) is reminiscent of Georg Grosz’s satirical portraits of 1920s Berlin society. Corpulent, well dressed, with genitalia on his face, Kay’s character is a full-figured image of the ’good life’. Rather than taking a moral position, The Bon Viveur (ii) is a celebration of its own perversity, a connoisseur’s paragon of gluttonous indulgence. The canvas is rendered in a flawlessly decadent style worthy of its subject.
