drawing
- Museum number
- 1997,0927.48
- Description
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Driving the World to Destruction, from the series 'PowerPlay' of 1983-87; half-length silhouetted figure on right, pulling rope wound around a globe on fire on left. 1983
Prismacolour pencil over graphite sketch
- Production date
- 1983
- Dimensions
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Height: 482 millimetres
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Width: 662 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label text from 2010-11 Oct-April BM, Picasso to Julie Mehretu
Chicago's best known work, 'The Dinner Party' (1979) addressed concerns of feminist identity in western civilisation. The artist visited Rome for the first time in 1982 and was struck by the monumental scale of renaissance painting. She re-taught herself oil painting and drew constantly from the model resulting in a series of large-scale paintings, entitled 'PowerPlay'(1982-7), which examine concepts of masculinity. This drawing relates to one of the paintings from the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010-11 Oct-April BM, Picasso to Julie Mehretu (no cat.)
2019-2020 Sep-Jan, London, BM, G90, Pushing Paper: Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
2020 29 Feb - 17 Mar, Durham, Oriental Museum, Pushing Paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
2020 19 Sep-23 Oct and 11-29 Nov, Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Pushing Paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
2021-2022 2 Oct – 5 Feb, Barnsley, Cooper Gallery, Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
2022 2 Apr-4 Jun, Stromness, Pier Arts Centre, Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1997,0927.48
