John Wilde

Work Reconsidered #1
1950

A surreal painting depicting a pale-skinned, bare-chested figure with a black headdress adorned with beads and pendants. The figure has an intense gaze and raises one finger upwards. Butterflies and bees rest on and around the figure, with a cut apple, a fish, and a seashell on the table in the foreground. A piece of paper with the text "OBJECTA e Dv" floats in the upper right corner against a dark greenish-blue background with a distant landscape and smokestacks.

A surreal painting depicting a pale-skinned, bare-chested figure with a black headdress adorned with beads and pendants. The figure has an intense gaze and raises one finger upwards. Butterflies and bees rest on and around the figure, with a cut apple, a fish, and a seashell on the table in the foreground. A piece of paper with the text "OBJECTA e Dv" floats in the upper right corner against a dark greenish-blue background with a distant landscape and smokestacks.

Not on view

Date
1950

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on wood

Dimensions
Overall: 30 1/8 × 25in. (76.5 × 63.5 cm)

Accession number
2006.83

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Helga and Dr. Peter Gardetto

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/27813

Exhibitions

John Wilde
5 works in the collection

View artist