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Marie-Josephe Sanson rests an executioner's sword on her shoulders. This artwork was created for the Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. It is paired with a work of art depicting Marie Antoinette. The 18th-century clothing that Marie wears here was displayed in the museum at the same time.
Note the detailed embroidery that shines created with gold thread and pearls, as well as the three-dimensional effect. The contours are daringly flat and ornately outlined. Though the work is painted with feminine colors, it features grim motifs such as a guillotine, a chain, and a wheel represented in the Sanson family crest.
Clad in thorns with her arms outstretched and legs crossed, Marie's figure is reminiscent of a crucifixion painting.
Both man and woman. The roles of the executioner and the executed are reversed.
Marie glares at the viewer fearlessly amidst the blue roses that made the impossible possible.
*The work is made up of a set of 2prints
*Signature on prints (handwritten)
In 1990, Keith!! was selected for Shonen Jump's 70th Hop Step Award. The work was his manga debut. He is best known for his realistic illustrations in Kokou no Hito, Innocent, and Innocent Rouge. Since Innocent, his drawing process has been fully digital. He says that switching to digital drawing has opened up a new world for him, enabling him to "fix his drawings as many times as he wants" and to be "thoroughly expressive."
He received the Excellence Award at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival for Kokou no Hito. Innocent was named a Jury Selection at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival. It was also nominated for the 18th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize and placed 7th in the Manga Taisho Awards in 2015. Innocent Rouge was named a Jury Selection at the 21st and 22nd Japan Media Arts Festivals. As of 2021, his work #DRCL is being serialized in Grand Jump.
The manga tells the story of executioner siblings who live a life of "innocence" in Paris during the French Revolution in the 18th century. The protagonists are Charles-Henri Sanson, who led the beheading of King Louis XVI, and his sister Marie-Josephe. Publication of the story's sequel, Innocent Rouge, began in 2015 in Grand Jump. The works have been hailed by readers for their spectacular artwork that is often compared to paintings. Innocent Musicale, a stage production directed by Amon Miyamoto, was performed in 2019.
Never-before-seen color and detail
A collection featuring realistic colors that cannot be produced with the offset printing process used for comics and manga magazines. Available in two sizes, A2 (420 mm x 594 mm) and A1 (594 mm x 841 mm). This collection is printed on the 100% cotton velvet fine art paper used in museum collections.
The digital paintings are readjusted and added to by the artist using the original RGB data.This makes it possible to express colors beyond the realm of CYMY normally used in publication printing.
For the Real Color Collection label, we send these captured and adjusted images to a printer that has undergone color management. The pigmented inks used in Epson inkjet printers are light-resistant and retain their original color even in the kind of light conditions that would cause dye color inks used on the originals to fade.
Not only do the ranges of color exceed those produced by the offset printing methods used for comic covers, but we are also able to achieve levels of light resistance and durability that even exceed those of the original pictures drawn on paper.
The original box includes a blockchain-linked sales certificate
All works are registered to Startrail PORT, NFT management service. Works include a blockchain-linked sales certificate with an affixed NFC tag sticker (letterpress printed by Kazui Press). You can view the information recorded on the NFT by scanning the NFC tag sticker with a smartphone. We will send you your product in an original Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage box.
Work Size A2 (420 mm x 594 mm) or A1 (594 mm x 841 mm)
Paper used Velvet fine art paper
Printing Method Archival Inkjet Print
Package Contents
Main product
Blockchain-linked sales certificate (letterpress printed by Kazui Press, linked with NFC tag sticker)
Matte paper
Special paper to absorb any harmful substances
Instruction manual
Storage case
