Formes désaxées

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Printed by Fequet et Baudler

1928; published 1957

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In this round painting the Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child in her lap with one hand and affectionately touches the face of the young John the Baptist with the other. Behind them stand three young angels. The setting is a room with windows behind them that look out onto an Italian landscape.
The elderly Tobit, dressed in a red cloak, is seated just left of center. The archangel Raphael, in a white robe and blue cloak trimmed in gold, stands before him. The angel reaches his right hand toward the medicine held by Tobias, who stands behind his father, Tobit. In the left background, a woman bends forward carrying an object, probably the fish from which the medicine was made. The scene takes place in a dark and rustic barn, complete with a chicken at the feet of Tobit and a rooster atop the slightly ajar barn door. The edge of the barn door is on a direct vertical with one of the legs of Tobit's chair. In the lower right corner lies a moneybag.
Sketch-like etching of a nude woman reclining with her head resting on her left arm.
In this narrow, vertical painting, Saint Augustine stands holding a book and a crosier. Above his head hovers the angel Gabriel, who is speaking to the Virgin Mary in the companion painting of Saint Benedict.