“Le Baiser” 2025

Dimensions: 130 x 97 cm

Medium: Oil on linen canvas

Artist: Victor Seehund

Le Baiser (2025) by Victor Seehund is a visceral, luminous meditation on intimacy and rupture. Painted in oil on linen at 130 × 97 cm, the work carries the gravity of a classical tableau—but its execution is fiercely contemporary, even cinematic. Two nude figures are suspended in a moment that is both tender and fractured: a kiss delivered mid-fall, mid-dissolve, mid-transformation.

Seehund’s brushwork is smooth, ghostlike—his bodies emerge as if through water or smoke, just on the edge of disappearing. The contact between the figures is soft, even devotional, yet the scene vibrates with danger. The blood-stained hands, the inverted posture, the breathless proximity—all point to something deeper than romance. This is not a kiss of sweetness. It’s a surrender, maybe a haunting.

The black background swallows any spatial context, placing these bodies in a dreamlike void. That void becomes a stage for the emotional ambiguity Seehund excels at—desire and violence, connection and disorientation, beauty and collapse. Every detail feels purposeful: from the turned neck to the pressed palms, the painting reads like a whispered confession that can’t be taken back.

Le Baiser isn’t easy. It’s arresting, uncomfortable, unforgettable. For collectors who crave work that lingers—emotionally, psychologically, even physically—this piece offers an intensity that few can match. It doesn’t just depict love; it dares to ask what love costs.