Artist:
Peter Paone
(b. 1936)
Seventh Commandment: Kiss not thy neighbor’s wife unless thine own thy neighbor doth caress
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Date: 1963
Dimensions:
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
Accession number: 2023.13.38
Curatorial RemarksPeter Paone (b. 1936) explores the theme of adultery by presenting two women of dramatically different scale. They eye each other warily while the disembodied heads of their husbands rather intrusively surveil the scene between them. The male figure at bottom fixes his sights on the woman’s cloven foot.
Completed in 1963, The Ten Commandments of Ambrose Bierce garnered Paone a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1965, allowing him to study in London and Paris. The Brandywine’s exhibition, “In Shadows’ Embrace: Prints by Peter Paone” (2024) is the first time in 57 years that the portfolio is being shown in full, the last being at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
Completed in 1963, The Ten Commandments of Ambrose Bierce garnered Paone a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1965, allowing him to study in London and Paris. The Brandywine’s exhibition, “In Shadows’ Embrace: Prints by Peter Paone” (2024) is the first time in 57 years that the portfolio is being shown in full, the last being at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
On view