The marriage
Richard Hamilton British
Not on view
This exceptionally lush print has a humble source: the discarded photograph of a young Japanese couple on their wedding day that Hamilton found nearly thirty years earlier in Hamburg. The subject recalls Jan van Eyck’s famous Arnolfini Portrait (1434; National Gallery, London), about which Hamilton wrote: “[It] does embody all that I most admire in art: incredible technical mastery (in a medium that van Eyck was himself inventing) set to the service of an arcane symbolism that moves its audience with profound simplicity. It is an epiphany, a crystallization of thought that gives us an instant awareness of life’s meaning.”
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