Tony Scherman b.1950

估價

25,000 - 35,000 CAD

招標截止

描述

Tony Scherman
In the Arms of Someone New
encaustic on canvas
152.4 by 152.4 cm.
60 by 60 in.

來源

Landau Fine Art, Montréal
Private Collection, Montréal

展覽

Tony Scherman, Landau Fine Art, Montréal, 1992

出版

Alec Scott, "Outrageous Fortune", Toronto Life, March 2007, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 69.

拍品資料及來源

Of his childhood years, Tony Scherman once recalled “my mother was chasing art, like a lot of people do, trying to find something. I must have been to every cathedral in southwestern Europe.” When Scherman was eight, his mother would take her own life.

Painted in wax encaustic—with all its liturgical connotations—the child from In the Arms of Someone New bears a striking resemblance to the fleeing boy in Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, housed in Rome’s Church of San Luigi dei Francesi.

Perhaps here, through his allusion to that painting, Scherman is channeling, resurrecting, counseling, his younger self.