Broken Moon

Category: Paintings

Artist: Maggi Hambling

Subject: Moon

Year of Work: 1989

Media: oil on canvas

Size: 84" x 36"

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Following the death and funeral of her mother, Maggi Hambling recounts: "I had a dream of the moon being broken, something it seems to me that scientists in their wisdom might accidentally do. It was shocking, because I think of the moon as a reassuringly permanent friend. I made a number of drawings and then large oils. It was only afterwards I learnt that the moon is one of the symbols of the mother."

This painting and the above text features in the monograph 'MAGGI HAMBLING THE WORKS and conversations with Andrew Lambirth' (see Publications page).

author: iapmag

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