The Rape of Dejanira (after Michelangelo), 1953

Record number
cm000582
Title

The Rape of Dejanira (after Michelangelo)

Date
1953
Medium
gesso, watercolour
Support
cardboard
Dimensions
517 x 651 mm
Inscriptions

McCahon / '53 (brushpoint, b.r.); After Michaelangelo [sic] 1953 / The Rape of Dejanira after Michaelangelo [sic] (on reverse)

Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1970/112
Exhibition history

1954 New Zealand Artists 1954
Victoria University
Wellington
2/1954 - 2/1954

Notes

This painting refers to the composition of an unfinished marble frieze by Michelangelo, Battle of the Centaurs, c. 1492 (Florence, Casa Buonarotti). McCahon first became familiar with the work of Michelangelo through publications of the Phaidon Press in the late 1930s and early 1940s. (See also the related works.)