
Paintings
- Publisher
- Edition Patrick Frey
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN
- 978-3-905509-33-5
- Specifications
- Hardcover
320 pages
157 illustrations
22 x 24.7 cm
Language: German
Paintings gathers small-format works by the American artist Karen Kilimnik from recent years. Her vedute of English country houses and enchanted fairy-tale castles she imbues with a romantic-melodramatic touch. She emphatically portrays three Angora cats like the Three Graces, shows exotic ducks recalling Géricault's chickens, paints a kestrel as if it were a commission for the Emir of Qatar, and devotedly paints butterflies in the night. Again and again she paints the old legend of the price that fame and beauty and wealth supposedly exact. In a brilliant triptych Princess Diana leaves the Ritz one last time.