SIMON EDMONDSON Los últimos cuadros de Velázquez? Una propuesta - May 13- June 26 2021
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May 13- June 26 2021
SIMON EDMONDSON
¿Los últimos cuadros de Velázquez?
Una propuesta
The three mythological scenes painted by Velázquez and lost in the re of 1734
When the Real Alcázar was burnt down over 500 works of art were destroyed, these included many important pieces by Titian,
Veronese, Rubens, and Velázquez. Of the series of 4 mythological scenes by Velázquez, which had been hanging in the Hall of
Mirrors, only Mercury and Argus was saved from the ames. Today it is hanging in the Prado, and although it has suffered alterations
and additions, it is still considered one of this great artist’s most interesting late works. We know from the late 17th century Royal
Inventories, that the three lost paintings were depictions of Venus and Adonis, Apollo and Marsyus, and Psyche and Cupid. Thanks
also to these inventories we have a good idea of the canvas size too, and more or less how they had been hung. Although we have
no idea how they looked.
My idea here has been to produce these three lost tales from Ovid, following the treatment of the surviving Mercury and Argus, in
mood light and technique. There is an atmosphere of suspense, premeditating the action which gives Mercury and Argus (1659) its
tension, and this I have also tried to maintain in different ways. It was interesting to have to decide which moment from each story
Velázquez would have chosen, and here I have opted for the unity of couples in landscape. The 2 violent central scenes anked by
the death of Adonis on the left, and the resurrection of Psyche on the right. I imagine the four paintings, each with its couple
painted to the same scale, stretching frieze-like at eyelevel above the famous lion tables, all the way down the south wall of the
great state room. It has been suggested that the hanging of paintings in this room, had been decided by Velázquez himself, and
that there may also have been interrelation from one painting to another (cf. Steven N. Orso). Prosaically, in my mind, the reddening
dusk in Titians Portrait of Charles V on horseback casts him as strolling, lance at the ready, towards Velázquez´s twilight land of
Gods.
Simon Edmondson, Madrid.
Acknowledgements:
Jose Manuel Barbeito: El Alcázar de Madrid.
Colegio O cial de Arquitectos de Madrid 1992.
Steven. N. Orso: Philip IV and the decoration of the Alcázar of Madrid.
Princetown Univ. Press 1986.
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
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VENUS Y ADONIS
2019
Oil on canvas
40 x 57,5 cm
PSIQUE Y CUPIDO
2019
Oil on canvas
40 x 57,5 cm
APOLO Y MARSIAS
2019
Oil on canvas
40 x 106 cm
MERCURIO Y ARGOS
2019
Oil on canvas
40 x 106 cm
PSIQUE Y CUPIDO I VENUS Y ADONIS I
2014 2014
Charcoal on paper Charcoal on paper
107 x 148 cm 107 x 148 cmPSIQUE Y CUPIDO II VENUS Y ADONIS II
2014 2014
Charcoal on paper Charcoal on paper
107 x 148 cm 107 x 148 cmPSIQUE Y CUPIDO
VENUS Y ADONIS
2017
2017
Charcoal on paper
Charcoal on paper
58,5 x 83,5 cm
58,5 x 83,5 cmAPOLO Y MARSIAS
2017
Charcoal on paper
58,5 x 152,5 cmMERCURIO Y ARGOS
2017
Charcoal on paper
58,5 x 152,5 cmSTANDING BY THE RUINS N.1 STANDING BY THE RUINS N.2
2020 2020
Oil on panel Oil on panel
50 x 45 cm 50 x 45 cmMID-SUMMER BALL
2021
Oil on canvas
181 x 198 cmTENNIS BLUE
2021
Oil on canvas
181 x 198 cmSALA DE REZAR N.3 SALA DE REZAR N.4
2019-20 2019-20
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
103 x 89,5 cm 103 x 89,5 cmMAP ROOM
2020
Oil on canvas
65 x 46 cmTWO PORTRAITS
2007
Oil on canvas
181 x 149 cmRED CARPET
2021
Oil on canvas
138,5 x 160 cmARMADORA
2021
March 2021
M aOil
r conhcanvas
2021
124 x 142 cm
Galería Álvaro Alcázar | Ferrer del Río 5 28028 Madrid | 91 342 8108 | galeria@galeriaalvaroalcazar.comA SMALL WORLD
2020
Oil on panel
55 x 48 cmBrief biography Collections
Simon Edmondson, London (UK), 1955 Arts Council of Great Britain.
Contemporary Art Society.
He trained in London, where he graduated in M. Unilever PLC.
A. in Painting at Chelsea College of Art (1977-78) Prudential Life Inc., New York, USA.
and later in M. F. A. in Painting at Syracuse Prudential Holborn, London.
University in New York (1978-80). Haggerty Museum. Milwaukee, USA.
May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, New York.
He had his rst major institutional exhibition at the Collection de Beaux Artes Contemporain, Monaco.
Deutsche Bank in Madrid in 1998 and in 2009-10 Stephen Solovey Foundation, Chicago.
at the Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt in Austria. Chazen Museum of Modern Arte, Wisconsin, USA.
La Chaux-des-Fonds, Museum of Modern Art, Suiza.
Since 1991 Edmondson has lived and worked in Deutsche Bank Collection, Spain.
Madrid. His work is represented in major cities Colección Gobierno de Cantabria, Spain.
around the world and he regularly participates in Lloyds Bank, Madrid.
the most prestigious art fairs such as Arco, Art Fundación Zuloaga, Madrid.
Chicago, Art Basel and Art Paris. Simone Audemars Foundation, Theatre-contemporain, Lausanne.
Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Austria.
fiMay 13- June 26 2021 Galería Álvaro Alcázar | Ferrer del Río 5 28028 Madrid | 91 342 8108 | galeria@galeriaalvaroalcazar.com
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