Einstein & The Jealous Monk

Category: Paintings

Artist: Chris Gollon

Subject: Larger Works

Year of Work: 2004

Media: mixed media on canvas

Size: 60" x 48"

This major work by Chris Gollon was purchased by Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2005. It was unveiled in autumn 2005 and shown alongside several studies for it, the latter borrowed back from collectors. In the same temporary exhibition it was juxtaposed with Epstein's bust of Einstein, also owned by the museum. A partial influence for Gollon's work were these lyrics from Bob Dylan's great ballad 'Desolation Row':

"Einstein dressed as Robin Hood/With his memories in a trunk/Passed this way an hour ago/With his friend The Jealous Monk/(...)You would not think to look at him/But he was famous long ago/For playing the electric violin/On Desolation Row..."

Chris Gollon's painting now forms part of the museum's permanent collection alongside major works by Sir Jacob Epstein, Walter Sickert, L.S. Lowry and Francis Bacon.

See public collections page for further details

*This painting was reviewed in Richard Crowe's article in New York's Whitehot Magazine Feb 2008 *

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