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Mr Pinkbrush Pinocchio For Sale

Mr Pinkbrush
Mr Pinkbrush - Pinocchio, 2025 , Oil painting on a canvas

Pinocchio, 2025

Oil painting on a canvas

90 x 120cm | 35.4 x 47.2 in

About this work

Mr Pinkbrush has established himself as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary pop surrealism, building a devoted following through his subversive reinterpretations of cultural iconography. Working primarily in oil on canvas, the artist brings a technical rigor to his practice that sets him apart from peers working in similar thematic territory. His paintings demonstrate a commitment to traditional methods while engaging with decidedly contemporary subject matter, creating works that resonate across collector demographics. Pinocchio represents a continuation of Mr Pinkbrush's ongoing exploration of childhood narratives and their darker psychological undercurrents. The artist transforms the familiar wooden puppet into a vehicle for examining themes of truth, transformation, and the often uncomfortable passage from innocence to experience. Rendered in oils at a substantial 90 x 120cm scale, the work commands physical presence while rewarding close inspection of its surface qualities and chromatic decisions. The 2025 dating places this piece within the artist's current mature period, a phase marked by increased compositional confidence and refined palette control. Mr Pinkbrush's market trajectory has shown consistent upward momentum, with collectors responding to the authenticity of his vision and the durability of his chosen medium in an era increasingly dominated by digital production. His works have found homes in significant private collections internationally, and the secondary market has begun to reflect sustained institutional and collector interest. This painting exemplifies the qualities that have driven that demand: technical accomplishment, conceptual depth, and genuine visual impact. For acquisition inquiries regarding this work, please contact Guy Hepner directly.

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Year
2025
Medium
Oil painting on a canvas

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About Mr Pinkbrush

Fabian Frohly, known as Mr. Pinkbrush, is a Swiss-French contemporary painter whose practice operates at the intersection of figurative painting, cartoon iconography, and psychological portraiture. Born with family roots tracing back to Paris, Frohly developed his artistic language through an early engagement with drawing, comics, and graffiti, before refining his approach through a Master of Fine Arts in Basel. He currently works and lives on the Côte d'Azur, a region historically tied to Cubism through Picasso's presence in Antibes, Vallauris, and Mougins, a connection that resonates deeply within his practice.

His work is defined by a self-developed movement he calls Fragmented Cubism: a contemporary approach to the figure that explores the coexistence of multiple emotional and psychological states within a single form. Unlike classical Cubism, which fragmented space and perspective, Frohly's fragmentation is internal. It is identity itself that splinters, overlaps, and holds together under pressure. Globally recognizable cartoon figures such as Pikachu, Mickey Mouse, Batman, and Pinocchio serve not as subjects but as vessels, containers of collective memory whose familiar presence invites immediate connection, while their structural fragmentation reveals something far more layered beneath the surface.

Frohly's paintings combine classical painterly depth with the visual immediacy of contemporary pop culture. Controlled, luminous oil surfaces interact with areas of deliberate openness and tension, reflecting a figure that is composed yet unstable, much like identity itself in the digital age, shaped across roles, contexts, and projections both physical and virtual.

Works by Mr. Pinkbrush are held in significant private collections internationally, including those of Carlos Slim, founder of Museo Soumaya in Mexico, and Susanne Grether, owner of one of Europe's most significant private 20th-century art collections. He has exhibited at Art Miami and Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and has collaborated with galleries including Les Galeries Bartoux (Paris, Miami, Monaco), Markowicz Fine Art (Miami), and Corridor Contemporary (Philadelphia and Tel Aviv), as well as Museum Ground in South Korea. In 2023, Frohly began an official creative collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation Studios and DC Comics, resulting in a series of licensed releases that further cemented his position at the intersection of fine art and popular culture.

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