1998, Cecily Brown, The Only Game in Town -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This thinly painted work – almost like a drawing – is Brown's earliest representation of a figure facing a mirror, a subject she has frequently revisited. Here, a woman regards her gruesome reflection, whose melting face and ghastly open mouth embody the perils of vanity and self-absorption. The image of a subject whose reflection belies her apparent youth recalls another of Brown's favorite popular illustrations, "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" (1915), in which the viewer can see a young or an old woman, but not both at the same time.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
1998, Cecily Brown, The Only Game in Town -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This thinly painted work – almost like a drawing – is Brown's earliest representation of a figure facing a mirror, a subject she has frequently revisited. Here, a woman regards her gruesome reflection, whose melting face and ghastly open mouth embody the perils of vanity and self-absorption. The image of a subject whose reflection belies her apparent youth recalls another of Brown's favorite popular illustrations, "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" (1915), in which the viewer can see a young or an old woman, but not both at the same time.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.