About the Artwork

Male and Female Head sculptures, This piece consists of the life size heads of a couple in conversation, as they sweep past each other, by the Accomplished Sculptor Gregory MacMillan.

Artist Comment

Many will know this through the film Dangerous Liasons with Glenn Close. The original book, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1783), is much more interesting. It depicts, in the most elegant French, the stylised manners and feelings of two libertins of the times of the Ancien Regime, when pursuing amours was the thing to do. Before a harsher reality stepped in. La Marquise de Mertueil and Le Conte de Valmont are both of them experienced players. Their goal is Love, or at least passion, while their true pleasure is in manipulating people. They are both busily engaged in seducing other people, while the only true relationship is between themselves.The book is in the form of the letters between them, in an era of fervent letter-writing, and the others: the seduced demoiselle, the duped lover; poor Valmont, it comes to a sticky end for him. All his plots crumbled. This piece is as close to narrative as I come: and shows how, while he thinks he is running affairs, it is of course she who really pulls the strings.
Year
2019

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Man`s and Woman`s Head statue)

by Gregory Macmillan

Price

£4,167

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