While his elaborately painted folding screen titled The Fourth of June (Eton) is the centerpiece of Lehmann Maupin's fair booth, the real prize of this show is a five by four - foot painting titled The imagined atelier of Bruno Hat, 2016, which features an invented steely
eyed young sculptor inside his decadent studio, encircled by a grouping of his sculptural busts.
Vergne was first introduced to art by his mother, an art historian, and said that when he was
young, seeing an installation by the German performing artist and
sculptor Joseph Beuys as well as a Salvador Dali exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris helped open his
eyes to the diverse potential of art.