Christina (after Wyeth), 18/25
ROBERT HAGUE
Christina (after Wyeth), 18/25, 2022
colour state (red), hand-coloured lithograph on cotton rag paper, edition of 25, unframed
70 x 70 cm
$1500
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Christina (after Wyeth)
The start point for this composition is the iconic painting Christina's World (Andrew Wyeth, 1948), which "depicts a young woman... lying in a grassy field... Her silhouette is tense, almost frozen, giving the impression that she is fixed to the ground. She stares at a distant farmhouse... ancient and greyed in harmony with the dry grass and overcast sky (MOMA catalogue).
I have imagined Christina's inner self, joyfully skipping across the scene (Skipping Vinegar Girl, 1936), the farmhouse now instead the Abbotsford Convent (mysteriously wrapped by the acclaimed artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude). Christina's leap of joy is a symbolic step into the new, reborn.
The scene is framed by a huge hollow tree.