Over My Dead Body (Casas)

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Over My Dead Body
(Barcelona) Over My Dead Body by Ramon Casas in MNAC.jpg
Artist Ramon Casas
Year1893
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions61.5 cm× 50.5 cm(24.25 in× 19 in)
Location Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Over My Dead Body is an oil on canvas painting by Ramon Casas, from 1893. It is held in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona.

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Description

At the beginning of the 1890s, Ramon Casas began painting interior scenes with a female figure always present. Over My Dead Body, one of the first of the series, Casas paints a young woman standing between two doorways . Her posture appears to be looking out at someone and preventing them from entering the room. [1] The complexity of the open doors at the far end of the room contribute a mysterious quality to the painting, allowing the viewer to question where this young woman really is. [2]

The painting's original title was replaced for some time with "Summer Study." But Miguel Utrillo changed the title of the painting back to "Over My Dead Body" after a solo exhibition at the Sala Pares in May 1900. The title of the work is listed in Pel & Ploma as "Summer Study." [3]

Exhibition

Exhibition history:

References

  1. Ramon Casas. El pintor del modernismo. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona and Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid. 2001. pp. 128–129.
  2. Ramon Casas. El pintor del modernismo. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona and Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid. 2001. pp. 128–129.
  3. Ramon Casas. El pintor del modernismo. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona and Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid. 2001. pp. 128–129.

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