2005, Cecily Brown, Hangover Square -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Rich purples lend plushness to this overstuffed interior, whose piles of clothing and jumble of furnishings suggest the morning after a raucous night of mayhem. The painting's title, Hangover Square, is a pun on London's upscale green Hanover Square, one that Brown gladly borrowed from a 1941 novel. With its unabashed clutter, the disarrayed room foreshadows Brown's return to painting crowded interiors fifteen years later, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Link to a high resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
2005, Cecily Brown, Hangover Square -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Rich purples lend plushness to this overstuffed interior, whose piles of clothing and jumble of furnishings suggest the morning after a raucous night of mayhem. The painting's title, Hangover Square, is a pun on London's upscale green Hanover Square, one that Brown gladly borrowed from a 1941 novel. With its unabashed clutter, the disarrayed room foreshadows Brown's return to painting crowded interiors fifteen years later, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Link to a high resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.