Artist:
Peter Paone
(b. 1936)
Standing Lautrec
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Date: 1964
Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (47.9 x 32.1 cm.)
Accession number: 2023.13.14
Curatorial RemarksPeter Paone (b. 1936) felt an affinity with French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who brilliantly captured the bohemian world of late nineteenth-century France and who, like Paone, excelled at printmaking. This dashing image highlights Lautrec’s sartorial flair. The artist was less than five feet tall; it is believed he suffered from pyknodysostosis, in which the long bones of the arms and legs cease growing in adolescence.
Paone is an artist well known to the Brandywine for the exhibition Reality Reassembled: The Halloween Paintings of Peter Paone, which was presented at Brandywine in the fall of 2019. Paone has had a long and successful career working in the figurative tradition, not only in painting and drawing, but also in printmaking, a medium that he has excelled in since he began studying it as a student at John Bartram High School in Philadelphia. Paone established the print department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught until 2009. Paone’s prints demonstrate his strengths in multimedia and his lifelong approach to storytelling that resonate with viewers through their mysterious but often poignant or dark portrayal.
Paone is an artist well known to the Brandywine for the exhibition Reality Reassembled: The Halloween Paintings of Peter Paone, which was presented at Brandywine in the fall of 2019. Paone has had a long and successful career working in the figurative tradition, not only in painting and drawing, but also in printmaking, a medium that he has excelled in since he began studying it as a student at John Bartram High School in Philadelphia. Paone established the print department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught until 2009. Paone’s prints demonstrate his strengths in multimedia and his lifelong approach to storytelling that resonate with viewers through their mysterious but often poignant or dark portrayal.