Solitary III
About this artwork
Featuring a corseted and stocking-clad female, this painting is typical of Lindner’s work. However, the woman is not cast as an erotic figure – she has a colourful and fragmented torso and Lindner plays with scale by perching a small head on her body. The painting appears to show an interior scene, with the woman framed by a brightly-patterned length of fabric. This painting was exhibited in Lindner’s first British exhibition, at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London in June 1962. Painted in 1959, it was among a number of works which were reworked and adapted in 1962 specifically for the exhibition.
Updated before 2020
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title:Solitary III
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date created:1959/62
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:107.20 x 68.80 cm; Framed: 108.60 x 71.00 x 4.00 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 3993
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Richard Lindner
Richard Lindner
Lindner was born in Hamburg and grew up in Nuremberg. He worked in Munich as an art director for a publishing firm until he was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933. After moving first to Paris, Lindner settled in New York in 1941, where he became a successful illustrator for magazines including '...