JEAN RUSTIN (France, 1928-2013) PORTRAIT OF AN AGELESS MAN, 1996 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left Countersigned, titled, dated and dedicated "à Claude Roffat avec reconnaissance et amitié à Bagnolet le 17.7.96" on the back Oil on canvas; signed and dated lower left; signed again, titled, dated and dedicated on the reverse 46 X 38 CM - 18 1/8 X 15 IN. PROVENANCE Collection of Mr and Mrs F. M. L., France. EXHIBITION Nancy, Espace Poirel, Pourquoi faites-vous cette tête-là? 25 January - 31 March 2001, no. 81, reproduced in the catalogue pp. 113 and 197 under the title "Tête d'un homme sans âge, 1986". "Jean Rustin's paintings form spaces where violence would once have clashed. Then all would be silent, all would be erased. All that remains are bodies and places without memory. They take up residence outside time, in spaces of nothing, long before any story begins; or long after everything is over." Marc Le Bot in. Jean Rustin, Aux limites de l'imaginable, éditions Virgile, Paris, 2011, p. 17.