Object number2003.27

Love’s Captives

Date1954

Artist Jess (American, 1923-2004)

after a painting by Jean Aubert (French, 1824-1906)

CultureAmerican

MediumCut-and-paste paper collage of various intaglio prints and a photogravure

DimensionsSight: 8 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (21.6 x 23.8 cm)
Framed: 14 x 18 x 1 in. (35.6 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Milton Bellin Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Collage

SignedOn recto, printed signature within image, lower right corner: Jean Aubert

InscribedOn recto, within the image, lower right corner: Jean Aubert; on reverse of frame, by unidentified hand, upper center in ink: LOVE'S CAPTIVES / Jess '54

BibliographyAuping, Michael., and Jess. Jess, Paste-Ups (and Assemblies) 1951-1983. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1983, p. 37; Brier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 38; Tuchman, Maurice., and Carol S. Eliel. Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992, fig.181 ProvenanceEstate of Robert Duncan
Purchased by Vassar College from Odyssia Quadrani

Vassar Exhibitions

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

In Pieces: Fragmentation and the Body

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print

Exhibition HistoryJess: Paste-Ups and Assemblies 1951 - 1983, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, December 7, 1983 - February 5, 1984; Newport Harbor Art Museum, April 19, 1984 - June 10, 1984;

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, held October 18, 1992 - December 12, 1993; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, February 11 - May 30, 1993; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, July 4 - August 29, 1993; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, September 30 - December 12, 1993;

Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, July 11 - September 17, 1995; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, February 25 - June 11, 1995; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT, October 10 - December 11, 1995;

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 14 - April 10, 2005;

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022
DescriptionA photogravure reproduction of Jean Aubert's Love's Captives with women and winged cherubs sitting in a forested landscape is overlaid by intaglio print cut outs of hands, eyes, lips, a rooster, a cherub, a man in a suit with a hat, and ducks, with an area cut out in the upper left revealing an intaglio print of two people beneath.

Terms

police women

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