LITTLE, JENNIFER (1954 -)

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"Discontinuity IV (Manfredi)" (1987)
oil on canvas
122 x 91cm
signed on verso
*exhibited at City Art Institute, Melbourne, 1987
*private collection, Melbourne
 
Little is a respected, award-winning Australian Contemporary Artist. She studied Visual Arts at COFA, the City Art Institute & the Julian Ashton Art School. She has exhibited widely around Australia in group and solo shows, including the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, S.H. Ervin, Cessnock Regional Gallery, the University of Sydney & Macquarie University, to name a few. She is the winner of numerous art awards, including the Hornsby Drawing Prize, Henry Gibbons Drawing Prize, Australia Council Project Grant & People's Choice Award for her "Portrait Of Victor Sellu" in the Archibald Prize, 1993. This stunning piece was part of her "Discontinuity" Series presented at the City Art Institute in 1987. The series was inspired by Renaissance Masterworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer & Bernini. This particular painting is based off Bartolomeo Manfredi's masterpiece "Cupid Chastised" (1613), itself inspired by the work of Caravaggio. The original hangs in the Art Institute Of Chicago. This work comes from the Martin Sachs Collection.

"Mars, the god of war, beats Cupid for having caused his affair with Venus, the goddess of love, which exposed him to the derision and outrage of the other gods. Venus implores him in vain to desist."