Wild Flowers
Greetings Card
1999 (made)
1999 (made)
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This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a face taken from a "classic" painting is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition.
Object details
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| Title | Wild Flowers (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph printed on card |
| Brief description | Greetings card reproducing a detail from a Louis Janmot painting. |
| Physical description | Cropped detail of a female face (taken from Janmot's oil on canvas painting "Wild Flowers" of 1845, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon). |
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| Credit line | Given by Tim Travis in memory of Michael Travis |
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| Summary | This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a face taken from a "classic" painting is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.920-2000 |
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| Record created | May 12, 2004 |
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