Indigo Song by Roy Forget
Painting, Oil on Canvas
81.0 cm (31.9 inch) x 100.1 cm (39.4 inch)
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The painting’s title derives from Marguerite Duras’ “India Song.”In her film, Duras evokes colonial Calcutta using the 1974 ruin of the Rothschild chateau just on the western outskirts of Paris.Duras has mentioned in interviews that exotic travels in themselves are worthless, it is the internal voyage that counts. I have painted this corner of Paris many times.It is the intersection of the rue Claude Bernard with the rue Gay Lussac.It is the same intersection as depicted in the painting « Contingences 2 », which is in the series « Tableaux parisiens ».As in Duras’ work, where characters float from novel to cinema as inevitable presences, Anne Marie Stretter, the heroine in “India Song”, is also the anti-heroine of “Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein”, in this painting, elements of the past return time and again — the same corner intersection, Lord Yama (he is also in my painting “La Destruction”), the verses of Frédéric Werst’s poetry in his book “Ward”, and the full moon.

ROY FORGET
Paris, Île de France France
Painting is the language I use to both contemplate and understand. When I finished art school, I often wondered what validity was required to make art, to pursue something so singularly personal and have others around take any interest in that endea... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support Type: Canvas
Artwork Height: 81.0 cm (31.9 inch)
Artwork Width: 100.1 cm (39.4 inch)
Depth: 2.3 cm (0.9 inch)
Weight: 10.0 lbs (4.5 kg)
Ready to Hang: Yes
Framed: No
Year Created: 2017
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: In back of canvas with artist stamp
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