Blue Shadow
1977
Artist
Milton Glaser
DIMENSIONS
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.5895
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
France
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Egypt, Entertainment, Exhibition, Nude, Paris, Woman
Milton Glaser originally drew this image of Cleopatra for an album cover but repurposed it into this advertisement for The Blue Shadow Gallery, located on a boat in the Seine. The gallery was on a converted barge owned by Glaser’s friends, the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon and his wife Paola Ghiringhelli. Glaser’s appropriately shadowy image of Cleopatra combines Symbolist-style mysticism with a 1970s hippie sensibility.
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