Portrait of Chief Joseph
38 x 25.2cm Original photograph by Edward D Curtis(1903, National Geographic Image Collection)ART DESCRIPTION
This is an unusual work on paper from 2015 in which Barry painted in acrylic and graphite on top of National Geographic portraits of two Native American chieftains. The two chiefs are very ‘Buffalo’ in style, with beautiful clothing and a great sense of dignity, presence and power in their stance - something that Barry greatly admired and emulated. The palette of these works is very particular to the year 2015 – his final year of life – and the palette used here (including the pink from the adhesive plaster motif) reflects the final series of twelve large-scale paintings that he did in that year (see works number 1 and 2).
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