Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797

Oil on Linen 71x61cm (Private Collection - USA)

Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805

Oil on Canvas 61x61cm (Private Collection)

Søren Kierkegaard 1813-1855

Oil on Canvas 61x61cm (Private Collection - USA)

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804

Oil on Linen 61x61cm (Available)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Oil on Canvas 70x70cm (Private Collection - London)

G W F Hegel 1770-1831

Oil on Canvas 120x100cm (Private Collection)

Gilt and Black Frame 140x120x10cm

Margaret Cavendish 1623-1673

Oil on Canvas 50x40cm (Private Collection)

Gilt and Black Frame 60x50cm

Martin Heidegger 1889-1976

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Available for Sale)

Denis Diderot 1713-1874

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection - USA)

Karl Marx 1818-1883

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Available)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Available)

Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection - Holland)

Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection - USA)

Edmund Husserl 1859-1938

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection)

Michel Foucault 1926-1984

Oil on Linen 35x30cm (Private Collection)

philosophers

What would Europe be without its philosophy? Western philosophy has multiplied ideas, with a continuous renewal of its lines of thought : idealism, pragmatism, existentialism, metaphysics… European philosophy has brought its best ideas to politics, ethics, art, mathematics, physics…

On the eve of Brexit I chose to pay my tribute to this European patrimony by painting distressed portraits of a number of prominent European philosophers.