Madame Elisabeth, 1975
GPO-0290
Folded photographic reproduction applied to a stretcher, coloured pencils on primed canvas
25 x 40 cm (two parts 25 x 20 cm each)
Signed and dated on the verso of the second canvas, lower stretcher bar: "Giulio Paolini / 1975"
Consolandi Collection, Milan
A colour reproduction of the self-portrait of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun entitled Madame Elisabeth de France (1782), crumpled up inside an empty stretcher, is accompanied by a primed canvas on which a rectangle filled with coloured pencil drawings duplicates the "vision" of that same painting.
The same theme was also formulated in a variant made during the same year (GPO-0291).
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Madame Elisabeth de France, 1782, oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm, Château de Versailles, Versailles.
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 192. |
| • | M. Scholz-Hänsel, “Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, p. 11, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 290 p. 301, col. repr. |
