The Passion of Christo
Date2008
Mediumoil and acrylic on canvas
DimensionsImage: 36 × 42 in. (91.4 × 106.7 cm)
Frame: 40 × 46 × 1 1/4 in. (101.6 × 116.8 × 3.2 cm)
Frame: 40 × 46 × 1 1/4 in. (101.6 × 116.8 × 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Peter Eller
Object numberPC2020.13.1
DescriptionA bearded man wears a white, long-sleeve shirt and a denim painter's smock in a dark room with a small barred window. With arms crossed against his stomach, he holds paint brushes in his left hand and the icon of a flaming heart on his chest. The latter is aflame and resembles a paint palette wrapped in barbed wire. The man stands proudly next to an oil painting of a similarly bearded figure, rendered in agony as he is suspended by shackles on his wrists. Yet another painted canvas is depicted behind the prisoner, with an open doorway through which light streams. The doorway is aligned with the prison bars behind the artist's self-portrait as Christ, prisoner and artist, suggesting themes of redemption and freedom.On View
Not on view
ca. 1950
ca. 1940
