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ROBERT POLIDORI (Canadian, b. 1951) ANCIEN VESTIBULE DE L'APPARTEMENT DE MME. ADELAIDE, CHÂTEAU...

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ROBERT POLIDORI (Canadian, b. 1951) ANCIEN VESTIBULE DE L'APPARTEMENT DE MME. ADELAIDE, CHÂTEAU...
ROBERT POLIDORI (Canadian, b. 1951) ANCIEN VESTIBULE DE L'APPARTEMENT DE MME. ADELAIDE, CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES measurement notations in pencil on verso of plexi mount chromogenic color print mounted on Plexiglas 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) 1985 PROVENANCE Gift from the artist to the present owner Private Collection, NEW YORK EXHIBITED NEW YORK, Robert Miller Gallery, ROBERT POLIDORI: VERSAILLES, April 16-May 17, 1997 LITERATURE Jean-Marie Perouse de Montclos and Robert Polidori, VERSAILLES, Paris, 1995, p. 44 (illustrated) This haunting image reveals a section of the Château de Versailles that is inaccessible to the public. Robert Polidori was granted rare access to private areas of the château, including the vestibule to the ancient apartment of Madame Adelaide, daughter of Louis XV. Louis XV apparently had a special tenderness for Madame Adelaide and would visit these chambers daily. This photograph seems to represent a classical study in one-point perspective, a practice which is probably executed in so many of those abandoned artworks that Polidori discovered strewn around the château. The vibrancy of the colors and the streaming light lend vitality to this photograph, as if this room were recently inhabited. The covered furnishings, however, evoke a sense of time past and abandoned.
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