Engravings

History painter and portrait painter, Yan Pei-Ming was invited in 2009 by the Louvre Museum to dialogue with the collection, in the heart of the painting department, Salon Denon. He chose to work on the world's most famous masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, which he reappropriated, probing the icon and paying tribute to Western painting. Yan Pei-Ming then proposed a huge polyptych and brought together the Mona Lisa, his father's portrait and the artist's self-portrait in the morgue. The artist, who works mainly in series and in two-colour printing - grey and white, black and white or red and white -