314. Fetching Water
Title: Fetching Water (working title)
Date: 1973
Subject: Fetching water
Materials and Techniques: White paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, mounted and placed in a frame.
Description: A nude woman with a water jug in her hands (La Source, 1820-1856, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French, Montauban 1780-1867 Paris, Musee d’Orsay) stands on a chair (Bedroom in Arles, 1868, Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, Zundert 1853-1890 Auvers-sur-Oise, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). She tilts it forward so that water pours out of it. The water is being collected in a vessel (unidentified) that is being held by a nude man (The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864, Edouard Manet, French, Paris 1832-1883, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) below.
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.
Status: Seen