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Olympia
Olympia
Olympia

Olympia

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1990s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 × 10 in. (33 × 25.4 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.18
DescriptionWoman lounging on a bed with a flowered spread. She is leaning on her right arm which is placed on a flowered pillow. She is wearing soft, draping garments and looking at the viewer. Her knees are bend and legs behind her, left hand resting on left knee.
Text Entries
This image presumably refers to Olympia, Edward Manet’s radical 1863 painting of a pampered courtesan, as Noggle also made a variation in which she is reclining in a similar pose. In her work of the 1980s-1990s, Noggle consistently asserted the vitality and even the sexuality of older women, reminding us that they have more on their minds than knitting and grandchildren. 
In a conversation with Katherine Ware, Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook dated this image to the 1990s, because Noggle is wearing rings that she got on a trip to Russia. He said the dress was citron colored and bought at a thrift store.
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