2022, Cecily Brown, Death and the Maid -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Here Brown borrows from an 1894 print by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) that shows the final embrace between a woman and a skeletal personification of Death, a motif traditionally known as "Death and the Maiden," and a recurring subject in Brown's work (see variations on this theme nearby). Here the artist transposed the lovers against a lush, hallucinatory landscape. She also shortened her title from "maiden" to "maid" - to modernize it, and to make sly reference to housekeeping, work that Brown did to help pay for art school.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
2022, Cecily Brown, Death and the Maid -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Here Brown borrows from an 1894 print by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) that shows the final embrace between a woman and a skeletal personification of Death, a motif traditionally known as "Death and the Maiden," and a recurring subject in Brown's work (see variations on this theme nearby). Here the artist transposed the lovers against a lush, hallucinatory landscape. She also shortened her title from "maiden" to "maid" - to modernize it, and to make sly reference to housekeeping, work that Brown did to help pay for art school.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.