John Bellany
Salomé
About this artwork
The opera Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and with music by Richard Strauss, was staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989. Bellany, who had recently overcome serious illness, saw this staging of Salomé, daughter of King Herod. In the Bible story, she demands the severed head of John the Baptist, and in Wilde’s version, she picks up the head and kisses it.
Published November 2021
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artist:John Bellany (1942 - 2013) Scottish
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title:Salomé
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date created:1989
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materials:Watercolour on paper
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measurements:76.50 x 57.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Charlie Nairn, 2018
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accession number:GMA 5615
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John Bellany
John Bellany
Bellany was born in the fishing village of Port Seton, near Edinburgh. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London. His work of the 1960s and 1970s dealt with original sin, guilt, sex and death. His characteristic paintings are large compositions featuring his own...
