woman wearing white dress and red cloak with hood and girl wearing yellow blouse, blue skirt and red cloak with hood emerging from the belly of a dead brown wolf

%C2%A9 2002 Kiki Smith

Born, 2002

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The Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fundexpand_more  2006.15

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In this imposing color lithograph, Kiki Smith creates a new mythology from the well-known children's folktale "Little Red Riding Hood." Smith visually and psycholgically merges human and animal as Red Riding Hood's grandmother fearlessly recovers her young charge from the belly of the now prone wolf. The scene is a metaphor for the rebirth and renewal, but may also represent sexual awakening, a theme common to Smith's work. Here, the figures of the grandmother and child are rendered as artist self-portraits, suggesting the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

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Artist Life
American, born Germany, 1954
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2006.15
Provenance
[Mary Ryan Gallery, New York]; sold to MIA, 2006.
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woman wearing white dress and red cloak with hood and girl wearing yellow blouse, blue skirt and red cloak with hood emerging from the belly of a dead brown wolf

© 2002 Kiki Smith

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