Untitled Figurative Painting by Philippe Cognee, Framed

Several faces, all with their eyes shut, and nobody offering to explain.

This untitled figurative painting, framed, is by Philippe Cognee (b. 1957), from France, dated 1986, in acrylic on Japan paper mounted on canvas. Bodies are heaped across the picture at odd angles, with no floor to speak of. A bare-chested young man leans in from the bottom right, head tipped back. Two more heads lie sideways at the left, and a figure above covers its face with one hand. Large, smooth, limb-like forms in cream, rust and gray-blue fill the spaces between them, along with a cut-off cylinder. Seventy-two inches wide and 92 high.

Untitled seems fair.