CECILY BROWN The Battle Between Carnival and Lent (after Bruegel).
Archival pigment print on Hahnemu¨le paper, 2017. 460x615 mm; 18x24 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 71/100 in pencil, lower right. Published by Two Palms Press, New York, for Downtown for Democracy, New York.
According to the artist, 'The Battle between Carnival and Lent is a depiction of greed and foolishness, hypocrisy, falseness, idiotic excess and mockery. That is why it seemed a fitting image for these times. But the image also contains a liveliness and wit that makes it impossible to despair. The image is a copy of Pieter Breugel's painting of the same name--it shows the contrast of virtue and vice; self-denial versus self-indulgence and the folly of both.'
