Les Gardiens brings together 4 small-format gorilla heads still available, from €150 to €190 each, painted in acrylic with a palette knife on cut-out hardboard by Camille Marchand. Every piece is one of a kind: once it is sold, it is never repainted. Each work ships signed, with its certificate of authenticity, and delivery is free within France.
Works in this collection
About the collection
Les Gardiens brings together four gorilla faces painted with the knife, in small formats. Where the Colosses take a whole wall, these fit a hallway, an office or an entrance, and hold your gaze just as closely. Each piece is an Isorel panel cut to the silhouette of the face, worked in thick impasto. Two have a bristling outline, two a calmer oval; all keep the same gaze. The gorilla is the totem of quiet strength, the kind that needs no display. Each work is unique, signed by Camille and accompanied by its certificate of authenticity.
Four gorilla heads painted with a palette knife, in small format, from 150 euros
What is Les Gardiens?
Les Gardiens brings together four gorilla heads painted in acrylic with a palette knife, on an Isorel panel cut to the exact silhouette of the animal. The painting is not a rectangle with the subject sitting inside a background: the panel stops where the gorilla's head stops, and it is mounted directly on the wall without a frame.
Each piece is unique, signed by Camille Marchand, a wildlife painter, and comes with a certificate of authenticity. The four gorillas each carry a name, Le Patriarche, L'Ancien, L'Éveillé, Le Silencieux, and each exists as a single original.
Why choose a small original painting for a first piece?
The four pieces in the collection run from 150 to 190 euros, with widths from 40 to 50 cm and heights from 53 to 66 cm depending on the piece. It is the only collection on the site below 500 euros, built as an entry point for someone who has never bought an original painting before.
The small format changes nothing about what the piece is: a hand-painted original, not a print or a reproduction. What separates it from the larger formats on the site is the size of the panel, not the technique or the status of the work.
How does a small-format gorilla painting hang at home?
The panel follows the silhouette of the head, with no frame around it. It is fixed straight onto the wall, more like an object than a rectangular window opening onto an image.
With widths from 40 to 50 cm and heights from 53 to 66 cm depending on the piece, a piece from Les Gardiens fits on an entryway wall, above a desk, in a hallway, or beside a door, where a large format would not. Before you buy, the augmented reality feature on each artwork shows the piece at real scale on your own wall, from a phone, without installing anything.
Le Patriarche, L'Ancien, L'Éveillé, Le Silencieux
The name identifies the piece from the moment it is chosen through to hanging it. The certificate of authenticity that comes with it carries the piece's unique number, 1/1, Camille Marchand's signature, a description of the materials and dimensions, and a photograph of the artwork.
Each piece in this collection is a unique, signed original. Once sold, a gorilla head such as Le Patriarche or L'Ancien does not come back: the name and the panel belong to a single original.
How can you see the palette-knife texture on a piece from Les Gardiens before buying it?
All four pieces in Les Gardiens carry a raking-light feature that the visitor can move across the image. The thick impasto, the hard edges of paint and the texture left by the knife become visible on screen, even though knife-worked paint only fully comes alive under real light.
This preview does not replace the piece itself: the certificate of authenticity that comes with each piece on delivery confirms it is an original, with its description and dimensions.
How do you know if this painting will suit your living room?
The augmented reality feature works from a phone, with nothing to install: it places the artwork at real scale on the chosen wall before any purchase. With widths from 40 to 50 cm and heights from 53 to 66 cm depending on the piece, that directly answers the question of size relative to the wall and the furniture around it.
The certificate of authenticity that comes with each piece on delivery confirms it is an original, with its exact dimensions.
How much does an original gorilla painting cost at Totem Sauvage?
The four pieces in Les Gardiens range from 150 to 190 euros depending on the work and the format, with widths from 40 to 50 cm and heights from 53 to 66 cm. Payment is made directly on the site, in full or with a 30 percent deposit that reserves the piece for three months.
It is the lowest price range on the site, below 500 euros. For a custom order rather than an existing piece, the price starts at 720 euros, an initial estimate.
Can an original gorilla painting be given as a gift?
A piece from Les Gardiens works as an original gift as much as a first purchase for yourself: the price stays below 200 euros, the piece is unique and signed, and it arrives with its certificate of authenticity.
Delivery is free within mainland France. The artwork ships signed, with its certificate of authenticity.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the panel really cut to the shape of the gorilla?
- Yes. Each piece in Les Gardiens is painted on an Isorel panel cut to the silhouette of the animal's head, not on a rectangular support. The outline of the painting is also the outline of the object.
- Do you need a frame to hang a piece from Les Gardiens?
- No. The panel is fixed straight onto the wall, with no frame. The cut silhouette itself acts as the edge of the piece.
- How does the 30 percent deposit work?
- A 30 percent deposit reserves the chosen piece for three months, giving time to complete the full payment. Once that period passes without the balance being paid, the reservation lapses, the piece goes back on sale, and the deposit is kept as compensation. Payment is secured by Stripe, processed directly on the site.
- Is delivery really free?
- Yes, within mainland France. The artwork ships signed, with its certificate of authenticity, at no extra cost added to the listed price.
- What does the augmented reality feature on each artwork show?
- It displays the piece at real scale on the chosen wall, from a phone and without installing anything. For a small format like those in Les Gardiens, it lets you check before buying that the size fits the space.
- Can you order a gorilla painting to your own brief instead of choosing one from the collection?
- A custom order is possible, starting at 720 euros, separate from the four existing pieces in Les Gardiens, which each remain a single already-painted original.
- What happens once a piece from Les Gardiens is sold?
- It is no longer offered: each piece is a unique original, and once sold, it does not come back under the same name or in the same format.