FRANCIS ALŸS In the past twenty years, the Mexico City-based Belgian artist has collected nearly three hundred portraits of St. Fabiola, most based on a lost original, painted by Jean-Jacques Henner in 1885.
FRANCIS ALŸS The artist has collected almost three hundred portraits of St. Fabiola, most based on a lost original, painted by Jean-Jacques Henner in 1885.
Based on a painting Bonnard made earlier, the design floats airily across the panels in Japanese style.
The unusual public art was based on a painting called "Yellow Trees" by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who had a recent exhibit at the Whitney Museum.
(The postman, of course, is van Gogh's Roulin, and the mother and child are based on a painting by Mary Cassatt).
That same year saw the premiere of her most famous lead role, Lise in "La Fille Mal Gardée," Frederick Ashton's reworking of an 18th-century ballet by Jean Dauberval based on a painting by Pierre Antoine Baodouin.
In addition, Mr. Masur conducts Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead," a tone poem based on a painting by Arnold Bocklin, and the evocative "Four Sea Interludes" from Britten's "Peter Grimes".
An exquisite and strange painting of a prostitute by Laura Owens might not at first glance appear to have much to do with the theme, though according to the exhibition catalog it is based on a painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Yale's collection.
