Olympia

(after Edouard Manet)

Another painting in the Time Travel Series. I purchased the necklace worn by the model in this restaging of Manet’s Olympia —a pearl on a velvet ribbon-- at the Musee Delacroix in Paris. The gift shop was selling reproductions of jewelry that had appeared in famous paintings. The bracelet is a concoction fashioned by the model herself from the “jewelery drawer” in my studio. I asked her to try to approximate the bracelet worn by the model, Victorine Meurent, in Manet’s original Olympia.

46x32 framed pastel