223. Date with Dionysus
Title: Date with Dionysus (working title)
Date: 1973
Subject: Intoxicated woman and man fornicating
Measurements: 8” W x 6” H
Materials and Techniques: Paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books
Description: A nude male figure (Sistine Chapel ceiling, detail of “God Divides Light from Darkness,” 1508-12, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, Caprese 1475 – 1564 Rome) reclines, intertwined with a nude female figure. An assortment of wine and fruit (Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81, Auguste Renoir, French, Limoges 1841-1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer, The Phillips Collection) sit at the female’s foot.
Signed: “Norman Green” written in pen on front lower-right corner
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. No notes on reverse