Hugo Baudouin — Paintings For Sale

This body of work marks a concentrated departure from Hugo Baudouin's figurative practice. In place of crowds and confronted identities, the focus narrows to a single object: the candle. Painted in oil on linen at an intimate scale, each work treats the subject with the same expressive line and psychological charge that defines Baudouin's broader output.

The candle is not a neutral subject. It carries ritual, desire, impermanence, and the body all at once. Baudouin leans into that ambiguity without resolving it. Some works are straightforward in their arrangement, wax and flame rendered with loose brushwork against saturated grounds. Others push the form into something stranger, shapes that coil and drip and curve away from what a candle is supposed to look like. The color is never incidental. Each work is built around a chromatic decision that shifts the emotional register entirely.

At this scale, the paintings are objects you live with rather than stand in front of. They suit a shelf, a desk, a wall corner. The intimacy of the format is part of what they're doing.