Indklæbet foto af Michelangelos Cumaea, Det Sixtinske Kapel, samt en malet ramme 1913 - 1914

J.A. Jerichau II made this piece called, Indklæbet foto af Michelangelos Cumaea, Det Sixtinske Kapel, samt en malet ramme, with paint and photograph, but we don't know exactly when. What grabs me is the painted frame around the photograph, it has this tentative, searching quality, like Jerichau was thinking through the image as they were framing it. The texture around the photograph’s edge gives a sense of the artist’s hand, you can almost see them testing out colors, mixing browns and blues like the edge of a stormy sea. Look closely at the bottom of the frame, where the paint is thickest. There’s a real physicality here, a sense of the artist wrestling with the image, trying to make it their own. It reminds me of something Agnes Martin might have done, this kind of quiet, meditative engagement with an image that’s already so iconic. And it speaks to the way art is always in conversation with itself, building on what came before while still trying to find its own voice.