JEAN RUSTIN (France, 1928-2013) MAN'S HEAD, 1999 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left Countersigned and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas; signed and dated lower left; signed again and dated on the reverse 46,5 X 33 CM - 18 1/4 X 13 IN. PROVENANCE Collection of Mr and Mrs F. M. L., France. "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. It takes up residence outside time, in spaces of nothing, long before any history begins; or long after everything is over." Marc Le Bot in. Jean Rustin, Aux limites de l'imaginable, éditions Virgile, Paris, 2011, p. 17.