2023
Silk thread on vintage engraving
13 1/4” x 9 3/4”
signed on verso
Framed and double matted with AR glass 20 1/8" x 16 1/2" x 1 7/8"
$1000 value
Available at Auction
2024 ICA Benefit Auction
October 19, 2024
So many rainbows!
In this piece I wanted to extricate Angelica from the epic tale told by Ariosto during the Italian Renaissance in which the knight Roger rescues Princess Angelica on his hippogriff from a sea serpent where she has been left naked and chained on an island by barbarians.
It was a popular scene in art, interpreted by Redon and Ingres and here by T. Chartran published by George Barrie. I wanted to remove her from this scene and have her surrounded instead by rainbows.