(each print has its own number that follows the series title above)
Archival ink-jet with chine-collé in artist's frame
38 x 50 cm each print
Edition of 1 + 1 AP
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 37 and 48
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 27
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 17
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 48
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 11
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 23
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 06
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 26
In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix, 34
The series of delicate chine-collé prints reveals an enduring friendship, captured in the letters written to the major figure of French romantic painting from his life-long best friend and former lover, Joséphine de Forget. With his status, Delacroix's letters to de Forget – and to others – have been transcribed, translated and made into books. The impetus for this work was to give voice to Mme de Forget. A research hunt ensued, taking the artist to the Frick Collection Reference Library in New York, to Musee Delacroix and antiquarian galleries in Paris, and finally to the Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne, where a substantial quantity of de Forget’s letters are archived.
Texts
Transcription and translation of a selection of the Mme de Forget's letters.link / pdf
Exhibition History
What follows is an ordinary situation, an episode to be related and forgotten, Andreas Grimm München, 2011Two Birds, Eighty Mountains, and a Portrait of the Artist, Arthouse, Austin, 2011
Reviews
Lisa Tan, What follows is an ordinary situation." Monopol Magazin Für Kunst Und Leben. April 2011.link / pdf
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Review: Lisa Tan, Arthouse at the Jones Center." Artforum. April, 2011, p. 222. Print.
link / pdf