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EAMON O'KANE

Double Portraits , oil on canvas, 2006-2007

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'...The Double-Portrait Series continues this approach. By taking well-known portraits by artists from the past such as the Van Eyck, Bellini and Vermeer and combining parts of them with equally iconic passages from portraits by Francis Bacon, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, Eamon O’Kane creates a new kind of art history. What they add up to is a self-portrait of the artist, not someone who sprang from Mount Olympus, armed only with his genius, but as one who is prepared to acknowledge the impact of history and his connections to the world beyond the studio.'

Catherine Marshall, February 2008

Double Portrait I, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private Collection, Leipzig

Double Portrait II, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private collection, Berlin

Double Portrait VII, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private collection, London

Double Portrait VI, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private collection, Cologne

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private Collection, Berlin

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Private Collection, Berlin

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

Double Portrait, oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand , 100 x 100 cm Collection of the artist

 

 

 

 

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