Russell Young Bardot Thunder For Sale

Brigitte Bardot

Russell Young's Brigitte Bardot series channels the same diamond dust technique that defines his Marilyn Crying and Jackie O bodies of work into a study of French cinema's most enduring sex symbol. Many of the works draw directly on Terry O'Neill's legendary 1971 photographs of Bardot — including the widely reproduced "Bardot Cowgirl" session — images that already occupy a mythic place in twentieth-century celebrity photography before Young's screenprinting process transforms them further.

Across dozens of colorways produced from the mid-2000s through the present, Young renders Bardot in registers ranging from cool St. Tropez blues and lavenders to hot cowgirl pinks and reds, each variant recasting her according to a different emotional temperature. The recurring cowgirl and motorcycle imagery — Bardot astride a bike, or posed in western dress — plays directly into Young's parallel interest in American frontier mythology, making Bardot one of the few subjects in his catalogue who bridges his celebrity portraiture and his Western series simultaneously. Hand-pulled acrylic and enamel screenprinting on linen, finished with individually applied diamond dust crystals, gives each canvas a shifting, light-catching surface that photography cannot fully capture.

Bardot remains one of Young's most consistently collected subjects, with strong demand across both vintage 2000s-2010s colorways and his more recent 2023 releases. The range of available formats — from small unique impressions to monumental 70-inch canvases — gives collectors multiple entry points into the series.

Guy Hepner represents an extensive selection of Brigitte Bardot diamond dust works for sale, spanning colorways and formats across nearly two decades of production. Collectors interested in acquiring a specific Bardot colorway, or in selling an existing work, are welcome to contact our New York gallery to discuss current availability.