Olympia Hermited

 

Maria Downey

  (biography)

c. 1980  

etching 

17 5/8 x 23 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

6 of 9  

pencil titled, editioned, and copyrighted (after signature) 

 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

22798 

$350.00 

A visual reference to Manet's "Olympia" oil painting, only in this instance, the woman is alone in a closed off room, hair down, her eyes trained on the television screen as opposed to the viewer, suggesting an air of hermitic solitude.