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| Medium: | hand-pulled lithograph | |
| Image size: | 25 3/4" x 33" | |
| Edition size: | 300 | |
| Numbered Proofs: | 51 | |
| Non-Numbered Proofs: | 19 | |
| Total Edition size: | 370 | |
| Number of colors: | 19 | |
| Year printed: | 2009 | |
| Atelier: | Arts-Litho, Paris | |
| Current Price: | $ 1500 |
For several years Authouart has drawn the corner at the intersection of rue d'Odessa and rue du Départ near the Tower Montparnasse in Paris. This area is a business and theater district near a large railway station. The area is swarming with people night and day. He goes there, with pen and paper, to record a few moments in the destiny of these unknown passersby. They do a strange ballet. Some disappear into the ground at the métro signs only to be replaced by others that spring up, illuminated by the theater lights.
This work is part of his Comics Section series that began in 2002. In the series, rather than painting on a white canvas, he first paints a comic strip, a product of his imagination, after which he paints his subject on top of the comic strip. When the painting is finished, parts of the comic strip show through the subject as if by transparency. It’s as if a second voice is speaking to the viewer.
In Alice dans le Métro, when viewed closely, one can almost feel the eroticism of the jostling on the métro when the hot weather has arrived. In this "under"story, the fair haired Alice is thrown to the floor and a large, athletic black man falls on top of her when the métro driver brakes to avoid hitting a Teddy Bear that a little girl has dropped on the track.
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