L. Michèle Franklin b. 1958
Banished, 1985
watercolour on paper
64.5 x 46 cm
Signed (lower left): L. Michele Franklin; (lower centre): Banished; dated, (lower right): 1985
1987-104
© Michele L. Franklin
The anguished pose of the retreating couple in Franklin's expressive double-figure study is reminiscent of Masaccio’s fresco of Adam and Eve’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1424-8) in...
The anguished pose of the retreating couple in Franklin's expressive double-figure study is reminiscent of Masaccio’s fresco of Adam and Eve’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1424-8) in Florence.
Provenance
purchased with the assistance of Alexander Margulies 1985Literature
Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 45.2
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