Study for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, circa 1935
Framed (ref: 8478)
Squared
Pencil, pen and brown and black ink
22 1/4 x 17 in. (56.4 x 43.2 cm)
Tags: Charles Mahoney ink pencil allegory Garden religion trees Mahoney RELIGION
Tags: Charles Mahoney ink pencil allegory Garden religion trees Mahoney RELIGION
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, TateThe Garden of Eden is here reinstated as a horticultural fantasy, defined by its relationship with an unseen domestic interior. Mahoney's image of perfection glimpsed from a window was created in the mid-1930s, when the idea of the garden was actually an accomplice of suburbanisation. Gallery label, May 2003Exhibited: 1936
