Stag

The subject of this watercolor recalls the large engraving of Saint Eustace (ca. 1500) by the famous German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Kiefer pokes fun at the image by representing his stag in a cartoonlike style.

 

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Saint Eustace
"S. Eustachius"
1974. Watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
8 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (20.6 x 27.3 cm)
Promised Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in memory of her father, Joseph H. Hazen
L.1995.12.4

 

 

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