
Autumnal Interior with Picasso Sculpture
2023
"Autumnal Interior with Picasso Sculpture" places the viewer inside a warmly lit domestic space where familiar objects take on a ceremonial weight. Rendered in oil stick, oil pastel, and flashe on linen, Manford's 2023 work operates through a visual language of compressed depth and saturated, season-tuned color, browns, ambers, and muted greens pressing against one another with an almost tactile insistence. The Picasso sculpture cited in the title functions less as an homage and more as a knowing provocation, one art-historical object absorbed into the quieter rituals of everyday life, stripped of its institutional aura and returned to the ordinary. Manford is known for paintings that treat the interior as a site of psychological and cultural layering, and this work is among the more resolved examples of that project. The linen support lends a soft, fibrous ground to the marks, allowing the oil stick and flashe to sit at different registers of opacity, some passages dense and declarative, others thinly veiled, nearly transparent. That tension between revelation and concealment mirrors the painting's larger concern with what interiors hold and what they quietly disclose about taste, memory, and self-construction. At 91.4 by 114.3 centimeters, the work commands a wall without overwhelming a room, making it exceptionally well suited to a collector who values painting that rewards close, repeated looking. Currently available through Harper's, the piece arrives signed by the artist and unframed, an invitation to site it deliberately within a living environment rather than receive it already finished and closed off from the space it will inhabit.
- Medium
- Oil stick, oil pastel, and flashe on linen
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Harper's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Harper'sView on map
For Sale — $20000
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