Darren Coffield UK, b. 1969
Blunt Adoration, 2018
Oil on canvas
77 x 61 cm
30 1/4 x 24 1/8 in
30 1/4 x 24 1/8 in
Copyright Darren Coffield
Photo: © Darren Coffield
Darren Coffield’s painting, “Blunt Adoration,” a parody of the classical ‘Adoration’ wound around Edward Snowdon’s iconic photo of Anthony Blunt examining a transparency. With its twists and turns in narrative,...
Darren Coffield’s painting, “Blunt Adoration,” a parody of the classical ‘Adoration’ wound around Edward Snowdon’s iconic photo of Anthony Blunt examining a transparency. With its twists and turns in narrative, the painting exemplifies the current ‘Looking Glass War’ of fake news, worthy of a John Le Carré novel.
Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen’s pictures and arguably the most important British art historian of the 20th Century was also a notorious spy, whose illustrious students included Nicholas Serota and Neil McGregor. When finally unmasked as a Russian agent, Blunt was protected from the press by Brian Sewell, art critic of the Evening Standard.
Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen’s pictures and arguably the most important British art historian of the 20th Century was also a notorious spy, whose illustrious students included Nicholas Serota and Neil McGregor. When finally unmasked as a Russian agent, Blunt was protected from the press by Brian Sewell, art critic of the Evening Standard.