Fenton Arts

Stories of a Painter and a Filmmaker

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.