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Cecilia Edefalk1999
- Attribution
- Cecilia Edefalk Swedish, born 1954
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Physical dimensions
- 80 × 53 cm (31 1/2 × 21 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
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Source rights statement: © 1999 Cecilia Edefalk
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Cecilia Edefalk’s work, almost always a serial exploration of a single motif, is distinguished by frequent experiments with duplication, scale, and proportion. All of the artist’s paintings emerge from a relationship to other modes of representation. For Edefalk, sculpture, notably historic statuary, has been a catalyst that she has consistently reinterpreted in order to reflect on experiences that bind her to a particular work. At one point in her career, she traveled to Italy, where she became fascinated by a Quattrocento statue, a polychrome wood angel for an Annunciation. This led her to create a series of paintings, including the haunting portrait Sienna . Although Edefalk considers this an independent composition, it marks the close of the series and aims to capture the mystical qualities she prized in the statue.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0