After De Gheyn II/Greuze
(2019)
from the Bring on the dancing horses series 2019
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 64.6 × 57.8 cm (image) 65.0 × 58.0 cm (plate) 78.9 × 70.2 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Edition
- ed. 30/38
- Printing/Publishing
- published by Paragon Contemporary Editions, London
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.r.: Glenn Brown
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse l.l.: 30/38 - Accession Number
- 2019.1064
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2019
© Glenn Brown, courtesy Paragon, London - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Glenn Brown appropriates historical art in his paintings and sculptures and in recent years has extended his conceptual concerns to drawing and printmaking. Brown considers drawing to be of fundamental importance for image creation, and uses the medium to distort, stretch and layer separate art historical references to create complex, line-based works. The Bring on the Dancing Horses series continues these investigations with six etchings that appropriate historical prints and drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Jacques de Gheyn II, Jacob Jordaens, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Andrea del Sarto and others. Brown adopts, conflates and destabilises their historical traditions of drawing as part of his ongoing conceptual critique of the pictorial codes and conventions of representation.
