work after the year 2000 » After Manet- Gulgilim Luncheon.
oil on birch panel 33″x49.5″ (2006)
Manet’s painting Le dejeuner sur l’herb (Luncheon on the Grass) engendered great controversy and shocked Parisians in 1863. Manet presented a nude female with clothed gentlemen at a picnic. Fenton updates the same concept showing the ladies undressed and the men in clothes.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013 at 6:54 am