Description
initialled and dated '11' in pencil in the margin (lower right), and with the artist's blindstamp, also signed and dated (to reverse), archival inkjet print
Dimensions
47cm x 47cm (18.5in x 18.5in)
Footnote
Provenance:
Collection of The House of St. Barnabas.
Note:
In 2004 Chris Levine was commissioned to create a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by the Jersey Heritage Trust to celebrate 800 years of allegiance of the Crown by the island of Jersey.
The result 'Lightness of Being' has perhaps become one of the most iconic portraits of the Queen. From that original sitting, Levine has created a series of new editions over the intervening years that are play on different elements of the photography processes that Levine uses.
'Equanimous I' uses the exposure of the film to change the identity of the Queen although her outline stays in tact.
This work was created in 2007, but dated to 2011, as Levine signs the prints as the edition is made, and he does not make all the editions in one go.