Detail from The Destroyed Room 1978
Transparency in lightbox 1590 x 2340 mm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Purchased 1988.
Cinematographic photograph
© The artist |
Eugène Delacroix The Death of Sardanapalus 1827
Oil on canvas
Photo RMN - © Hervé Lewandowski, Paris, musée du Louvre |
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The strong diagonals in this image reference Delacroix's painting The Death of Sardanapalus (1872).
The violent tear in the mattress is echoed in the struts supporting the set itself, and here, in the
triangular shape of a high-heeled shoe.
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