Pietro Annigoni 'Portrait of Joan Moynagh' the field revisited 'Solitudes Bride Bird Cage'

'Solitudes Bride Bird Cage'

but rather a subject with an ambiguous

She is gently satirical and lightly experimental – bronzed legs

'Duo' 2000

The seventeenth-century Dutch naturalist Jan Swannerdam argued that their life stages were emblematic of life

Pietro Annigoni 'Portrait of Joan Moynagh' the field revisited 'Solitudes Bride Bird Cage'This exceptional portrait by Pietro Annigoni dates to 1950 and depicts Joan Marie Moynagh at around twenty five years of age, shortly before she embarked on a successful career as a professional opera singer performing throughout Europe. The work is realised as a crayon image photo transferred onto copper a rare and technically intriguing medium within Annigonis practice. The copper plate is signed and editioned directly into the surface; this