Royal Academy of Arts

Anthony Green RA

The Life and Death of Miss Dupont

18 Jan - 25 Jun 2017

Anthony Green RA,
The Fur Coat: ‘Hazana’, 1963 then 2005-14.
Oil on board and MDF with 5 independent panels and real objects. 300 x 242 cm. © Anthony Green. Photo: Shelagh Bidwell / Montage Photography.
Anthony Green RA,
The Second Marriage / The Fur Coat, 2005.
Watercolour and pencil with red ink on joined paper,. 101 x 86 cm. © Anthony Green. Photo: Shelagh Bidwell / Montage Photography.
Anthony Green RA,
Marie Madeleine (1910–2005), 2005.
(Edition of 10).
Etching with original watercolour, oil painting and rubber stamp. © Anthony Green. Photo: Shelagh Bidwell / Montage Photography.
Anthony Green RA,
Madeleine’s Ashes: The Crystal Powder Bowl, a Memorial, 2015-2017.
Free standing painted drum with crystal bowl. © Anthony Green. Photo: Shelagh Bidwell / Montage Photography.
ANTHONY GREEN RA
The Life and Death of Miss Dupont
18 January — 25 June 2017

The paintings of Anthony Green RA (b. 1939) are immediately recognisable from their characteristic irregular shapes and the artist’s acutely personal subject-matter. This exhibition celebrates the 40th anniversary of his election as a Royal Academician in 1977.

The centrepiece of this exhibition, shown for the very first time, is a three-metre-tall painting, The Fur Coat, “Hazana”. It tells the story of Anthony Green’s mother’s second marriage, seen through his eyes as her thirteen-year-old only child. Green has worked on the recently finished painting since 2005.

It incorporates a life-size figure of his mother, Madeleine Dupont, complete with mink coat, silk scarf and handbag, and contains a fragment salvaged from a destroyed work of 1963. Three-dimensional works extend the painting; drawings and watercolours reveal the process of its making; and documents and photographs add to the story.