La Naissance de l’Homme Cosmique
The Birth of the Cosmic Man
- Date
- 1970–1971 · also given as 1971–1972
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 210 × 280 cm
- Period
- Cosmic, 1968 — 1971
- Reference
- cat. 25
The key canvas of the cosmic period: the body coming apart into luminous particles against a deep void.
Sources disagree on the date. The research dossier gives 1970–71; the reproduction’s caption gives 1971–1972.
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Cosmic · 1968 — 1971
The scale changes and so does the light. Bodies come apart into clouds of luminous particles suspended in deep space. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the acknowledged provocation behind Divination (1968–69); the CNAC bought the first monumental canvas out of the Salon de Mai.
Also from this period