226. Eve

Eve 1

Title: Eve (working title)
Date: 1974
Subject: Woman holding an apple
Measurements: 5 ½” W x 6 1/16” H
Materials and Techniques: White paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books
Description: The figure of a woman is complied from several different collaged images. She is seated, with her left arm resting on her thigh, and her right arm lifting an apple to her lips. Her body is composed of parts from several works of art: her head and torso is that of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite, 3rd-1st centuries BC, Hellenistic, The Louvre), and her lower half and arms come from two different paintings.
Signed: “Norman S. Green 74” written in pen on front lower right corner.
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. Identifications written in pencil on back.