COLLAGES

Nuestro árbol (Our Tree, 2023) – 63 x 53 cm –
acrylic, collage, pencil, inks and antique carved wooden frame

The following selection, divided into three groups, begins with recent works and goes back in time to a small piece created when the artist was eleven years old. Please click on the image you wish to enlarge, at least virtually.

RECENT YEARS (2021 onwards)

Gate to the river in the city (22-XII-2025) – pencil, ink and collage – 29 x 21 cm

(Detail of) Gate to the river in the city (22-XII-2025)

The Mercenary (2025) – microcollage – 6,6 x 4,4 cm

(Detail of) The Mercenary (2025)

Strega Lisa (2025) – collage – 30 x 22 cm

A Conspirator (2025) – collage – 12 x 10 cm

Woman Looking at the Sun (2025) – collage – 30 x 20 cm

Palestinian Child (14-XII-2023) – ink and collage – 29 x 24 cm

(Detail of) Palestinian Child (14-XII-2023)

(Detail of) Our Tree (2023)

The Messiah of the Onions (2021) – collage, acrylic painting and ink – 28 cm x 20,2 cm

(Detail of) The Messiah of the Onions (2021)

The hidden profile of Federico da Montefeltro, painted without his consent (2021) – collage, acrylic and ink – 28,8 cm x 20,9 cm

(Detail of) The hidden profile of Federico da Montefeltro, painted without his consent (2021)

Cubist Portrait of Fernando Fader (2021) – micro-collage, crayons and ink – 6,8 cm x 8,3 cm

Cubist Portrait of Fernando Fader (2021) in hand of its author, as a reference

The Model Holding up a Landscape (2021) – micro-collage – 8,9 cm x 4,6 cm

The Model Holding up a Landscape (2021) in hand of its author, as a reference

Opulist President (2021) – lápiz, tinta y micro-collage

ASIAN YEARS (2004 – 2018)

Monje Azul (Blue Monk, 2017) – micro-collage and inks – 12,1 cm x 7,2 cm

My Last Japanese Girl Was the Queen of the Ramen (2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel, crayons and golden ink – 29,3 cm x 14,2 cm

(Detail of) My Last Japanese Girl Was the Queen of the Ramen (2016)

My Oriental Education (2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel and crayons – 4 cm x 11 cm

My Chinese Girlfriend Disguised as Flying Kangaroo (2016) – micro-collage, ink and oil pastel – 10,5 cm x 2,8 cm

Fair Exit (2016) – micro-collage, fire and oil pastel – 4,9 cm x 11,1 cm

Fair Exit (2016), with ruler as reference

My Blue Girl in her Metallic Heaven (2016) – micro-collage, foil (envelope of a chocolate), oil pastel, crayons and acrylic painting – 15,5 cm x 13,1 cm

(Detail of) My Blue Girl in her Metallic Heaven (2016)

Aesthetic Conversation Between Two Foolish Militants (2016) – micro-collage, ballpoint pen and golden ink – 7,6 cm x 17,6 cm

The Human Fish That I Saw in Singapore (2016) – micro-collage, Chinese ink and golden ink – 12,5 cm x 13,1 cm – NOTE: Luis Felipe Noé collection

Chinese and Japanese People Visiting Together a Great Charif’s Exhibition (2013-2016) – micro-collage, inks, oil pastel and crayons – 4,7 cm x 26,6 cm

(Detail of) Chinese and Japanese People Visiting Together a Great Charif’s Exhibition (2013-2016)

Surgery of a Star (2016) – micro-collage and golden ink – 8,4 cm x 10,3 cm

All is lost (between us) (2013-2016) – micro-collage and ink – 19,5 cm x 5,2 cm

(Detail of) All is lost (between us) (2013-2016)

Blue Residents (2013-2016) – micro-collage, crayons and golden ink – 18 cm x 8 cm

(Detail of) Blue Residents (2013-2016)

A Fundamentalist of the Geometric Art (2016) – micro-collage and oil pastel – 25,1 cm x 9,6 cm

(Detail of) A Fundamentalist of the Geometric Art (2016)

The Whole Landscape of a Very Brief Life (2013-2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel and golden ink – 18,5 cm x 6,3 cm

(Detail of) The Whole Landscape of a Very Brief Life (2013-2016)

The marchioness of Celibacy and the marquis of Chastity, lovers (2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel and golden ink – 24,7 cm x 21 cm – NOTE: Loosely based in “Marquis et la Marquise de Samery” -a couple of miniatures of 3 cm, circa 1825-

(Detail in natural size of) The marchioness of Celibacy and the marquis of Chastity, lovers (2016)

The Horrific Woman With the Tongue Made of Teeth (2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel and golden ink – 12 cm x 14,4 cm

A Quite Creative Woman (2015-2016) – micro-collage, pencil, crayons, golden ink and oil pastel – 17,7 cm x 16,5 cm

(Detail of) A Quite Creative Woman (2015-2016)

Abstract Art: The Day Into the Night (2012-2016) – micro-collage, crayons and pencil – 4,2 cm x 14,1 cm

Levitation of the Chestnut-Woman (2006-2016) – micro-collage, crayons and ink – 15,7 cm x 11,8 cm

(Detail of) Levitation of the Chestnut-Woman (2006-2016)

My horse thinking (2016) – micro-collage and ink – 24,1 cm x 9,0 cm

(Detail of) My horse thinking (2016)

The Great Hearers (2009-2016) – micro-collage, crayons, ink and vinyl glue. – 10,4 cm x 12,9 cm – NOTE: Inspired by “Louis XVI donnant ses instructions au capitaine de vaisseau La Pérouse pour son voyage d’exploration autour du monde, 29 juin 1785”, from Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1817).

The Torero’s Wife (2006-2016) – micro-collage and ink – 9,4 cm x 11,8 cm

The son of a vampire (2012-2016) – micro-collage and inks – 5,9 cm x 21,6 cm

A Divorce (2012-2016) – micro-collage and crayons – 11,7 cm x 15,3 cm

Child Imagining a Collage (2016) – micro-collage and crayons – 7,8 cm x 6,1 cm

Child Imagining a Collage (2016), in hand as reference

Laughing like a Japanese (2016) – micro-collage and and crayons – 16,4 cm x 13,4 cm

(Detail of) Laughing like a Japanese (2016)

Laughing like a Japanese (2016), in hand as reference

Woman Who Turns Her Back to Reality (2016) – micro-collage, crayons and oil pastel – 11,2 cm x 8,4 cm – Private collection (Switzerland)

Portrait of an Extraterrestrial Patriotic Hero (2016) – micro-collage -11,6 cm x 8,6 cm

The carious tooth (2013-2016) – micro-collage, pencil and ink – 7,7 cm x 8,7 cm

The carious tooth (2013-2016), in hand as reference

Conversation Piece (2016) – micro-collage, oil pastel and golden ink – 13,6 cm x 24,1 cm

The Natural Sea (2016) – micro-collage – 13,3 cm x 6,2 cm

Santos de mudanza / Saints moving of home (2013-2016) – micro-collage and inks – 9,1 cm x 26 cm

(Detail of) Saints moving of home (2013-2016)

They Are Landing on My House (2016) – micro-collage and golden ink – 12 cm x 17,3 cm

(Detail of) They Are Landing on My House (2016)

Cachito soñando en el bosque (Cachito dreaming in the forest, 2015-2016) – 29,5 cm x 15 cm – micro-collage and inks

(Detail of) Cachito dreaming in the forest (2015-2016)

Mujer barriendo la casa (Woman Sweeping the House, 2016) – micro-collage, ink, oil pastel and crayons – 20,9 cm x 20,3 cm

(Detail of) Woman Sweeping the House (2016)

Subterranean Life in a Hidden Country (2012-2016) – micro-collage, inks and oil pastel – 16.7 cm x 3.7 cm

(Detail of) Subterranean Life in a Hidden Country (2012-2016)

Fetiche feliz (Happy Fetish, 2012-2016) – collage, inks and oil pastel – 28,6 cm x 20,7 cm

(Detail of) Happy Fetish (2012-2016)

La espantahombres (The Scaremen, 2013-2016) – collage, inks and oil pastel – 25,2 cm x 17,1 cm

(Detail of) La espantahombres (The Scaremen, 2013-2016)

Portrait of Nicola Tesla Meditating About Electricity (2016) – collage, ink, oil pastel and acrylic painting – 23,1 cm x 17 cm

(Detail of) Portrait of Nicola Tesla Meditating About Electricity (2016)

La máquina de hacer Boudous (The Boudou-making machine, 2012, with corrections made on 2016) – collage, ink, golden ink, fire and oil pastel – 8,3 cm x 20,7 cm – Rizzone collection

Big Triptych for an Epic Romance (2012) – micro-collage, oil pastel, ink and pencil – 3,3 x 21,1 cm

Big Triptych for an Epic Romance (2012), with ruler as reference

Pinocchio Muratore (Mason Pinocchio, 2012) – micro-collage, oil pastel, ink and pencil – 5,9 x 14 cm

Bob Eye (2012) – micro-collage and acrylic painting – 2,2 x 1,6 cm

The Labyrinth of Fú (2012) – micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 18 x 15 cm

(Detail of) The Labyrinth of Fú (2012)

Louis XXIII, the Sunny King (2012) – micro-collage, ink, and pencil – 9,9 x 4,7 cm

Louis XXIII, the Sunny King (2012), with ruler as reference

Pop Music (2012) – collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 18,2 x 11,7 cm

La siesta de la mosca (The Nap of the Fly, 2010), micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 7 x 4,4 cm

Pizza God (2010) – micro-collage, oil pastel and pencil – 26,7 x 16,4 cm

(Detail of) Pizza God (2010)

My African Girl (2010) – micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 11,7 x 5,6 cm

Degoldenribonucleic I of Wasteland, the Great Conqueror (2009/2010) – micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 11 x 16,5 cm

Fábrica de seres alados (Winged Beings Factory, 2009/2010) – micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 9,8 x 9,3 cm

Monster in the Landscape (2009/2010) – micro-collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – 5,7 x 7,6 cm

Happy Landing (2009) – micro-collage, oil pastel, ink and pencil – 4,3 x 5,2 cm

Autumn in New York (2009) – micro-collage, pencil and oil pastel – 4,7 x 16,8 cm

Das Experiment von Wolfgang Köhler (2009) – collage, ink and oil pastel – 21,8 x 17,4 cm

(Detail of) Das Experiment von Wolfgang Köhler (2009)

The Lover (2009) – micro-collage and pencil – 6,5 x 10,3 cm

Fu Manchu (2009) – micro-collage, pencil and ink – 5,2 x 8,8 cm

Bride of the Atom (2009) – micro-collage and ink – 7,3 x 5 cm

Calma en un país (Calm in a Country, 2009) – micro-collage and oil pastel – 5,4 x 6,8 cm

The Extraordinary Gelatin-Woman (2009) – micro-collage and pencil – 6 x 5 cm

Pato resfriado (Duck With Flu, 2004/2006) – micro-collage – 7 x 7,5 cm

Communion of the Blood, the Potato and the Anorexia (2005) – collage – NOTE: Signed by Charif as “Victorio Lenz”

Archives of a Next Holocaust (2004) – micro-collage – 4,5 x 6 cm

Work table (September 2009)

20TH CENTURY (1970s to 2000)

No Turn On Red 7am/9pm (2000) – micro-collage

Je ne t’aime plus, parce que j’ai oublié ton langage (Paris, 2000) – collage

El hombre de la bolsa (The Sack Man, 1999) – collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel – NOTE: one of the first Charif works signed as “Victorio Lenz”

Las mejores lectoras (The Best Female Readers, 1999) – micro-collage

Apocalypse (circa 1999-2000) – collage and ink

(Detail of) Apocalypse (circa 1999-2000)

Run! (1997) – collage – 8 x 14 cm

Golden Composition (1997) – collage

(Detail of) Golden Composition (1997)

The Desperadoes (in Technicolor) (1997) – collage

Restaurant Süllermanía (1997) – collage

(Detail of) Restaurant Süllermanía (1997)

Gatillo fácil (Trigger-Happy, 1997) – collage

Humanitarian Spiritism (1996) – collage and ink

(Detail of) Humanitarian Spiritism (1996)

Gimnasia económica (Economic Training, 1996) – collage and ink

(Detail of) Gimnasia económica (Economic Training, 1996)

La Constitución Nacional (The Argentine Constitution, 1995) – collage, ink, pencil and oil pastel

(Detail of) La Constitución Nacional (The Argentine Constitution, 1995)

La Comeniños (The Children-Eater, 1995) – collage

(Detail of) La Comeniños (The Children-Eater, 1995)

The ascension to heaven of Mary Magdalene happens modeling from a catwalk (1994) – collage, acrylic paint and ink

El espíritu de la carne (Spirit of the Flesh, 1994) – collage, pencil and ink

¿Te quedaron entradas para la Crucifixión? (Do You Have Still Tickets for the Crucifixion?, 1994) – collage and ink

Masturbación del monstruo de dos cabezas (Masturbation of the Two-Headed Monster, 1994) – collage

Monja de vacaciones echándose a perder / Nun in Vacation Taking on the Wrong Track (1994) – collage

Hazard and Order (1993) – micro-collage on a jar cap of marmalade

The Spanish childhood in Buenos Aires (1992) – collage

Concierto divino para que laven los platos (Almanaque de la obra cumbre) / Divine concert to wash the dishes -Almanac of the pinnacle work- (1991) – collage, oil pastel and ink