Description:
Terri Priest (American, 1928-2014)
Parachute History, from the Angel Series
Signed and dated "T. Priest '97-98" l.l., signed and inscribed on the reverse.
Oil on canvas with collage, 28 x 28 in. (71.5 x 71.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Good.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Literature: Terri Priest, Interactions: Paintings and Works on Paper, (Worcester, MA: College of the Holy Cross, 2005),exhibition catalog, illus. p. 21.
N.B. In the inscription on the reverse, the artist cites the sources for the work's imagery, including a collaged photograph of a parachute taken by the artist in New Zealand in 1998 (and further hand-embellished by the artist),a collaged reproduction of Francesco Albani's painting Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus, and a collaged and painted angel after the 18th-century Neapolitan creche angels from the annual Christmas Tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Estimate $800-1,200
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