Painted draft
120 x 160cm
1954
The figure of ‘Nectar’ for the wine company Nicolas was the subject of extensive rework by Loupot. In the post-war period, he had turned the previously semi-realist figure into a piece of geometric reduction. Now, experimenting with the figure, Loupot paradoxically tries his hand at giving depth and volume to the flat shape. The figure has a shadow that is enlarged and stretched in imitation of the type of shadow produced by a tangible, weighty body. At various points of intersection, the white of Nectar turns grey, a play on the change of colour in artistic depictions of depth.