Mlle Modiste - Howard Taft Lorenz Art Print
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Somebody has dealt this bedroom face up. Heart cards fan out under a rope of pearls and a ring. Over them a crowned queen of hearts grins from her narrow panel, her throat drawn out to a stem.
She is a shop-window mannequin in burnt sienna, bald and long-necked, two breasts stacked inside a lamp-black strap. One leg kicks at the ceiling. Her ear has wandered off wearing its earring, and a braided ochre toque hovers above a skull too smooth to hold it. Carmine lips wait in a saffron triangle. Behind her spreads a viridian dress form, the one unbroken body on the premises.
To the right, still life turns vanitas. Aubergine grapes crowd a copper decanter that wears a crown, and an alizarin rose stays within its frame. A cob of corn rests beside one orange. Through a slatted blind comes a strip of Prussian blue night.
Howard Taft Lorenz built Mlle Modiste for the New Deal’s easel division in 1930s Manhattan, and the surface holds its decisions. Soot and peacock teal lie in thin scumbles. Flaked pigment opens onto ivory ground. Social Surrealists were turning hunger into dreams that decade, and here that hunger gets a boudoir. Near the floor a card shows one high-heeled shoe, its bow tied, waiting for a foot.
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Framed Art Prints
1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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