309. Self Restraint
Title: Self Restraint (working title)
Date: 1973
Subject: A person restraining another person
Measurements: 7 7/8” W x 5 7/8” H
Materials and Techniques: White paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, mounted and placed in a frame.
Description: A man (Sistine Chapel ceiling, detail of the Prophet Jonah, 1508-12, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, Caprese 1475 – 1564 Rome) and woman (At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, 1890, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, Albi 1864-1901 Saint-Andre-du-Bois, Philadelphia Museum of Art) are locked in restraint.
Signed: “Norman S. Green 1973” written in pen on bottom right corner
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. Since the piece is framed, we do not know if the figures in the piece are identified on a back label.