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Elizabeth Peyton

I’ve visited this exhibition a long time ago… Like the colors and technique. softness versus contrast.

Live Forever:
Elizabeth Peyton

18 October 2009 –
21 March 2010

From her earliest portraitsof 19th-century heroes to her more recent paintings, featuring friends from the world of music, fashion and literature, Elizabeth Peyton has presented herself as a contemporary ‘painter of modern life’, in the sense that Charles Baudelaire meant it. Peyton’s miniature portraits capture the spirit of the times in an artistic language that unmistakeably reflects late 20th-century urban sensitivity. The museum is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Peyton’s oeuvre in the Netherlands, mounted by the New Museum in New York, comprising work of the past eighteen years, beginning with a small-scale portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte and going up to one of fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton has been organized by the New Museum, New York.