Napoleón

Seguí’s Napoleón is from the earliest period of his career. Other paintings in this series depict influential members of society such as academics, generals, bankers, and members of the clergy, resembling cartoonish monsters with distorted and multiplied facial features. Here Seguí portrays Napoleon as an unsavory and hypocritical figure with a terribly distorted, four-eyed face. The rest of the figure is painted in an a gestural manner suggestive of chaotic forces or of strong emotions such as anger. Similar to the works of artists in the Otra Figuración movement in Argentina, in this work Seguí expresses a post-war existential angst and cynicism regarding the importance of political leaders in society