ᐅ A Crown for the King by Ludovic Thiriez (2025) | Painting

Artwork information

Technique

Mixed media on canvas

Date

2025

Dimensions

100 cm x 70 cm

Signature

Signed

Proof(s) of authenticity

Painting sold with a certificate of authenticity.

State of conservation

Very good

Framing

Location

Budapest, Hungary

Description

Ludovic Thiriez, A Crown for the King (2025)
Mixed media on canvas — 100 × 70 cm

In A Crown for the King, Ludovic Thiriez unfolds a figurative painting built in layers, true to his way of "organizing his compositions like a cake, made of several layers": images, sensations, memories, and motifs stack upon one another to give rise to a scene that belongs as much to storytelling as to dream.

The canvas depicts a suspended moment by the water’s edge: two figures seen from behind, close to the viewer, appear absorbed in quiet contemplation, while a third, more distant figure floats on the surface. The space is neither entirely identifiable nor completely unreal. An incandescent pink sky, shifting aquatic planes, and a sense of time standing still immediately create an atmosphere that feels outside the world.

On the right, a pink flamingo—an unexpected, almost totemic presence—tips the scene toward fairy tale and surrealism. Nature frames and permeates the image (foliage in the foreground, a dark horizon), recalling the central role of vegetation and animal imagery in Thiriez’s universe.

Provenance

Artist's Studio

The artist

Painter

Ludovic Thiriez

Emerging artist

Painter

Born in 1984

France

Bio

Ludovic Thiriez is a French artist who lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. His painting focuses on childhood, he explores this period of life, with its truths, emotions, contrasts, and transitions.

His painting is a kind of accumulation of images, experiences and ideas. Ludovic Thiriez likes to say that he organizes his compositions like a "cake" formed by several layers, which we savor like a perfect bite. His superimpositions of elements tell stories. His stories mix reality, fairy tales and surrealism. On the canvas, abstract brushstrokes mix with figuration.

Nature and animals have an essential place in her paintings. The discovery of Brazil and the Amazon pushed him to include nature in his compositions.

Ludovic Thiriez's paintings are out of time and out of a defined space, the artist deliberately relocates his subjects to make the spectators travel. Ludovic Thiriez explores a world both strange and fantastic.

He has been living in Budapest for more than ten years. Hungarian culture has been an important source of inspiration for him, especially the Hungarian embroideries that are passed on from generation to generation.

In 2018, he won the prestigious Luxembourg Art Prize.