A painted page 1: Twiggy by Richard Avedon
1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 105.5 × 152.8 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: "A painted page 1: / Twiggy by Richard Avedon" /1979.
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil on reverse u.c.: (for / Paul / Taylor)
stamped (diagonally) in purple in ink on reverse u.r.: JENNY WATSON
inscribed (diagonally) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: by JENNY WATSON.
stamped in purple in ink on reverse c.l.: JENNY WATSON - Accession Number
- DC30-1982
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Michell Endowment, 1982
© Courtesy of the artist - Gallery location
- Gallery 11
Level 2, NGV Australia - About this work
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From the end of 1979 to early 1980, Jenny Watson produced a series of six paintings, all of which commenced with the title A painted page. The series merged painted facsimiles of newspaper pages, photographs or store catalogues with gestural fields of colour, and fused together contemporary styles of pop, non-objective realism and photorealism. This work features a gridded, greyscale image of the model Twiggy, which Watson duplicated from a printed reproduction of a Richard Avedon photograph taken for Vogue in 1967.
