Silk Pumpkin (after Moroni) (May 2016)

A pastiche of the portrait of Prospero Alessandri by Giovanni Battista Moroni (Simon Dickinson, London), inscribed on plinth on left: ENTRE MIEDO YSPERENZA / NOBLE HOMBRE PROSPERO ALXANDRO DEL FVE NOBLE GERONIMO 1580 CVI MVJER LA NOBLE SENORA ISABELLA DELFVE NOBLE PEDRO GOZZI - in which the nobleman's head is replaced by a pumpkin

Dimensions:

24 x 18.8 x 2 cm

Accession Number:

0509

Credit:

Gift of the Thomas Frangenberg Bequest; presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2019

Scheme:

Thomas Frangenberg Bequest (2018)

Ownership history:

Gifted by the estate of Thomas Frangenberg (1957-2018) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Leeds Art Gallery, 2018/19

Relationship:

Leeds Art Gallery Thomas Frangenberg

Subject:

Portraits, Vegetable

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Sasha Bowles

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Silk Pumpkin (after Moroni) (May 2016)

oil on postcard

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