2020, Cecily Brown, Lobsters, Oysters, Cherries and Pearls -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This painting's title catalogues a number of luxuries pictured in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still lifes, all of which Brown represents here. Bloodred cherries nestle in a footed white compote bowl at right. A robust lobster claw dominates at center left, while underneath the brimming display a large black cat stares fixedly out as if ready to pounce. Felines appear in some of Brown's favorite early modern sources, surreptitiously feasting on the tabletop's delicacies or watching from below as they lie in wait.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
2020, Cecily Brown, Lobsters, Oysters, Cherries and Pearls -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This painting's title catalogues a number of luxuries pictured in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still lifes, all of which Brown represents here. Bloodred cherries nestle in a footed white compote bowl at right. A robust lobster claw dominates at center left, while underneath the brimming display a large black cat stares fixedly out as if ready to pounce. Felines appear in some of Brown's favorite early modern sources, surreptitiously feasting on the tabletop's delicacies or watching from below as they lie in wait.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.