Robert Storr and his wife Rosamund Morley playing the viola de gamba in Degas' portrait of Manet and his wife

Gilje, Kathleen (born 1945)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) (after a work of)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
2006
Height:
66.7 cm  (26 1/4 in.)
In two pieces. Left piece: 74.93 cm wide; Right piece: 20.796 cm wide
Technique / Medium:
oil on linen

Description

Revising Degas' portrait of Edouard Manet with Mme. Manet playing the piano--and the history of that painting being slashed, presumably by Manet-- Kathleen Gilje presents her work in two sections: on the left she places a portrait of art critic and curator Robert Storr, reclining, and a partial, half cut-off image of his wife, Rosamund Morley, playing a viola da gamba; on a separate panel, Gilje completes the image of Mrs. Storr and closes the composition originally conceived by Degas.

People as subjects

Morley, Rosamund (active late 20th-early 21st centuries) (Musician portrait)
Storr, Robert (born 1949) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

48C514(+431)
picture, painting ( + copy, copying ~ work of art)
52A41
Idea, Concept; 'Idea' (Ripa)
48C75
making music; musician with instrument
48C78
listening to music
61B2(ROBERT STORR)12
historical person (ROBERT STORR) - historical person (ROBERT STORR) in a double-portrait
61BB2(ROSAMUND MORLEY)12
historical person (ROSAMUND MORLEY) - BB - woman - historical person (ROASMUND MORLEY) in a double-portrait
48C7521
one person playing string instrument (bowed)
48C738
accessories ~ music: music-stand

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Bow [2207]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Yale Art Gallery image
image link 3
Artist's website image (left side)
image link 4
Artist's website image (right side)
image link 5
Images of the truncated original Degas work and Manet's later portrait of his wife (RIdIM item 6133), preceded by an uncredited digital blending of the two paintings
image link 6
Wikimedia Commons image of the original (slashed) Degas painting

Bibliographic references

Friedrich, Otto. "Degas and Mrs. Manet", The New York Times (March 22, 1992), sec. 2, 37. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/22/arts/art-degas-and-mrs-manet.html

Notes

Artist Kathleen Gilje often re-envisions famous art works from previous centuries, blending their content with modern experience. See, for example, her vision of two works by Vermeer (RIdIM items 2381 and 475): https://kathleengilje.com/artwork/322282_The_Concert_Restored.html and https://kathleengilje.com/artwork/321490_Lady_Standing_at_the_Virginals_Restored.html

RIdIM record id

6122