Charlie Roberts
Sunday dad ball
Gesso, graphite pastel and acrylic on canvas
152.5 × 172.5 cm
Charlie Roberts's Sunday dad ball is a large-format painting executed in gesso, graphite pastel, and acrylic on canvas, its generous scale giving the image a physical presence that draws the viewer into an enclosed tennis court saturated in deep, vibrant green. Two elongated female figures dominate the court's surface in dynamic, anatomically exaggerated poses — one in red socks and shorts, the other in dark athletic wear — their musculature rendered with careful precision that edges into the stylized and the surreal. Scattered across the court, a soccer ball rests beside a daisy, crumpled paper lies nearby, a small mushroom illustration appears on the left wall, and a contemplative male face emerges in profile at the lower left corner, each object quietly disrupting any straightforward reading of athletic competition. Beyond the wire fence, bare tree branches reach across a pale sky, their spare delicacy pulling against the charged foreground, while the brushwork shifts from tight control in the figures to loose, gestural handling in the surrounding environment. The painting holds athletic energy and private introspection in uneasy balance, asking the viewer to move between its realistic surfaces and its stranger symbolic freight without settling on a single interpretation.
NOK 189 000
Incl. 5% Norwegian art tax (kunstavgift)
