ABSTRACT
The world represented by the artist is a subjective world, the result of the specific story of an individual in permanent interaction with his internal and external environment. The last works of William Utermohlen, between 1990 and 2000, constitute a rare testimony to the processes of creativity and inner life of a patient suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. The neuropathological aspects of William Utermohlen's late works are therefore a unique clinical journal of the evolution of the cognitive disorders of his disease. However, Utermohlen's late oeuvre is particularly precious in our view because it also constitutes the narrative of the artist's subjective experience of his illness. Artistic creation may, for William Utermohlen, also be an attempt at self-healing. All the scenes in the "Conversation Pieces" are set in the artist's apartment in central London and define its rich atmosphere. The artist has assimilated his drawing method to his destiny: to subsist while disappearing.
