In Memoriam to Alain de Cadenet
1945 - 2022
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
Baruch Spinoza
760 Unique NFTs created from 65 specially selected skulls from the skull portrait archive of artist Alexander de Cadenet.
Archetypes
Each archetype represents a figure from history or contemporary times. Can you uncover who they are?
The Jester
The Father
The Conflagrator
The Spiritual Teacher
The Trickster
The Master
The Gaslighter
The Star
The Wronged
The Chief
The Spy
The Bomb Maker
The Empress
The Patron
The Emperor
The Lover
The Adventurer
The Catalyst
The Collector
The Rapper
The Genius
The Magician
The Smoker
The Love of My Life
The Chameleon
The Diplomat
The Romeo Spy
The Mother
The Beauty
The Fellow Artist
The Prestidigitator
The Competitor
The Mark Maker
The Supporter
The Conquered
The Übermensch
The Trusted Friend
The Vessel
The Alchemist
The God King
The Grandmother
The Nun
The Philanthropist
The Husband
The Trustafarian
The Minotaur
The Lawyer
The Machiavellian
The Immortalised
The Mask
The Banker
The Visionary
The Wife
The Knot
The Provocateur
The Alpha
The Helmet
The Patroness
The Clown
The Trophy
The Skeleton Painter
The Saviour
The Recruit
The Psychic Surgeon
The Almost Wife
The Man of Destiny
Anomalies
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Exclusively available to purchasers of Skull Portrait NFT’s: unique single edition stamps have been created for each portrait as a miniature artwork. These can be printed in singles and blocks of 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 16 if purchased in the same transaction. Stamps come in a perspex frame as seen below.
Contact the artist directly for more details and pricing.
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A preview of the miniature framed stamp artworks available alongside selected Skull Portrait purchases.
6 layouts
FAQ
Getting Started
In his skull portraits, de Cadenet is using modern art language and processes to communicate the vital spiritual teaching of death in a way that is relevant to our time
The skull portraits tackle both the the idea of mortality and also the question of how we construe human identity
De Cadenet’s Skull Portraits re-energise the long histories of the painted vanitas….There is a ghoulish humour in de Cadenet’s jest with the skull image: these will persist, of course long after we become crematorium dust