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Priscilla Roberts
(1916-2001)

Self Destruction
Oil on board,
24 x 24 inches
Signed at lower left:
PRoberts

Painted in 1983

Ex coll: Private collection, London, England, 2001

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Self Destruction


In 1953, Priscilla Roberts painted a work entitled Caravel. It depicted an old school-globe with the shadow of a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria cast across it. In 1981, during the preparations for her retrospective exhibition held at the Grand Central Galleries in New York, this painting was destroyed in a fire. Two years later, Roberts painted the same objects, the globe and the sailing vessel, in a second composition. In this picture each of the objects in the composition were in a state of disrepair. Soon after the painting was finished the artist fell and broke her shoulder. This accident provided the title for this piece.

 

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